<strong>Southbank Theatre, Melbourne Theatre Company<br></strong>After beg scuppered by a snap lockdown 2021, Gay’s highly anticipated take on Cyrano turns out to have been worth wag for
Contents:
- CYRANO REVIEW – VIRGIA GAY’S MT-SEE BOUNDARY PHG CELEBRATN OF LOVE
- VIRGIA GAY ON THE CHALLENGE OF QUEERG CYRANO: ‘I DON’T WANT A TRAGEDY RIGHT NOW’
- VIRGIA GAY SHAR WHY SHE FELT PELLED TO MAKE ‘CYRANO’
- CYRANO REVIEW – VIRGIA GAY SH THIS BOLD, QUEER REIMAGG
CYRANO REVIEW – VIRGIA GAY’S MT-SEE BOUNDARY PHG CELEBRATN OF LOVE
Virgia Gay serv up a joyo, genr-flipped retellg of Cyrano Bergerac. Packed wh mic, w and achg romance. * virginia gay cyrano perth *
Virgia Gay livers a joyful, genr-flipped retellg of Cyrano Bergerac.
Script velopment of Cyrano by Virgia Gay (after Edmond Rostand) has been assisted by the Atralian Government through the Atralia Council for the Arts, Sydney Ftival and the NSW Government through Create NSW and the Cy of Melbourne COVID-19 Arts Grants.
VIRGIA GAY ON THE CHALLENGE OF QUEERG CYRANO: ‘I DON’T WANT A TRAGEDY RIGHT NOW’
Virgia Gay. Zsuzsa Gaynor Mihaly.
VIRGIA GAY SHAR WHY SHE FELT PELLED TO MAKE ‘CYRANO’
The purpose and power of words is explored to pch perfect edic effect Cyrano, Virgia Gay’s genr-flipped reimagg of the story of Cyrano Bergerac.
Virgia Gay and director Sarah Goos know that we know the narrative of Cyrano well enough to shake up a b and do so by havg Cyrano open wh the act of fiantly smashg down the fourth wall and pullg the dience pletely to the narrative of the story. The divi between major characters, Cyrano (Gay), be-to-be Roxanne (Tuuli Narkle), hunk-whout-a-bra Yan (Joel Jackson), and seasoned chos members, 1 (Zenya Carmellotti) and 2 (Rob Goldsworthy), and the excedly anx 3 (Holly At), is clearly fed, yet by the rapturo sparkly close the fi the tragedy of the origal text, that divisn is disrd the name of joy and posivy. In this way, Gay’s script dismantl the notn we see so equently ment sectns onle where people react to cricisms about cel edic jok wh foolish remarks like, ‘learn how to take a joke’ or lamentg about the lack of meang edic acts om the past wh notns that ‘everythg is so PC nowadays’.
CYRANO REVIEW – VIRGIA GAY SH THIS BOLD, QUEER REIMAGG
Buildg om the foundatn of explorg physil inty, Gay’s script then manovr to explorg sexual inty.
At s re, Cyrano is a love story, and Gay’s script giv fertile ground for one of the year’s most lightful and lirly joyo love stori to play out.