Cyrano de Bergerac by Rostand (Derek Jacobi 1985 TV) 11/17

John Carlisle... Le Comte de Guiche
Sinéad Cusack... Roxane
Tom Mannion... Christian de Neuvillette
Derek Jacobi... Cyrano de Bergerac
John Bowe... Le Bret
Ken Bones... Carbon de Castel Jaloux
Richard Clifford... Gascony Cadet
Robert Clare... Gascony Cadet
Philip Dennis... Gascony Cadet
John Tramper... Gascony Cadet
Niall Padden... Gascony Cadet
Phillip Walsh... Gascony Cadet
Simon Clark... Gascony Cadet
David Shaw Parker... Gascony Cadet
Christopher Bowen... Gascony Cadet

Writers:
Edmond Rostand (play)
Anthony Burgess (translation)

Directed by Terry Hands
Original Music by Nigel Hess
Film Editing by David Martin
Production Design by Ralph Koltai
Costume Design by Alexander Reid

Alexander Guy Holborn Spiers writes:

An analysis of Rostand's production thus reveals a lack which may be considered a defect: it can in no wise be considered intellectual. On the contrary, both his philosophy and his theatrical technic, especially forged to be in harmony with this philosophy, are primarily emotional. In the opinion of many, this fact is sufficient to bar him from a place among the great names of literature; but it also makes it impossible to maintain that he does not represent the feelings of his age; and it must be admitted that in one or two plays he has given to them a peculiarly lofty expression.

If ever the non-intellectual, the sensuous and the emotional have a right to our admiration, then certainly the plays of Rostand must stand high in our esteem. They are beautiful in themselves, with a beauty that is invigorating rather than depressing; and they have produced, to some extent at least, the salutary result desired by the author in his "Discours": holding the attention of thousands of readers and theater-goers, the world over, in the contemplation of works of art, they have awakened within them a sympathy for that which is altruistic and idealistic and a dislike for the selfish and the material.

Category:

Education

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• Rostand
• Cyrano-de-Bergerac
• Derek-Jacobi
• John-Carlisle
• Sinéad-Cusack
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• theatre
• theater

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