The Stranger, March 23rd, 2006
If you love Cyrano de Bergerac and you go into this production of it with a generous attitude, it is possible to enjoy it vaguely, but you have to really love Cyrano and you have to be really generous. The main characters are: Roxane, who is "elegant, literary, and unmarried"; her cousin Cyrano, who is in love with Roxane, is incredibly witty, and has a huge nose; and Christian de Neuvilliette, who also loves Roxane, is a bumbling idiot, and is a stud. These two guys are so infatuated with her, so hard up, and so sure that neither stands a chance, given their respective failings, that they agr...
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