![]() ![]() But there is a touch of masturbatory self-pity about his surrogate wooing: he becomes, as Christian says, “the man with the nose / And the acres of highbrow wet-dream prose.” Far from being a simple love object, Roxane is here a bookish intellectual who reacts angrily to the revelation of the truth and even Christian grasps the homoerotic implications of one man using another as the vehicle for his passion.Īt its best, this re-reading of Rostand works beautifully. Their Cyrano is, on one level, the embattled artist who needs hate “so that I can create”. ![]() Photograph: Marc BrennerĬrimp and Lloyd are at pains to remind us this is, first and last, a play about the dangerous lure of language: its capacity to both enchant and deceive. Honesty and feminist strength … Eben Figueiredo as Christian and Anita-Joy Uwajeh as Roxane. ![]()
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