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Cyrano, Bristol Old Vic
Outstanding new version of a tragi-comic classic
A nose for love: Cyrano (Tristan Sturrock) with Roxane (Sara Powell)
[Geraint Lewis]
SIMON DUFF relishes the cross contamination of Damien Hirst’s greatest hits by street artists from France and the US
In view of the grooming gangs inquiry, SIMON PARSONS feels the relevance of this powerful examination of trauma suffered at Medomsley Youth Detention Centre
JOHN GREEN doubts the motivations of a US war photographer who never questions why, or for whom, she is producing images of imperialist conflict
MARIA DUARTE reviews Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, Hedda, The Mastermind, and Regretting You
TONY CONWAY welcomes a thrilling and concise history of Hope not Hate, that is also a manual full of tactical advice
PAUL DONOVAN welcomes an inspiring account of living with deafness that has important lessons for the treatment of deaf people in today’s UK
NUMEROUS versions of Edmond Rostand’s 1897 play about the hot-blooded 17th-century swordsman, poet and philosopher, cursed with a nose of excessive proportions, have filled hours of stage and film time.
This latest version by Bristol Old Vic is a fun-filled, triumphant addition.
With a nod to commedia dell’arte, Peter Oswald’s translation and Tom Morris’s direction inject a lightness of touch, while contemporary references shift the production away from any specific time period.
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