Cyrano De Bergerac: An Heroic Comedy in Five Acts

Cyrano de Bergerac is the most eloquent man in France, a poet whose words can move nations and a swordsman who fears no man. Yet this brilliant, audacious Gascon carries a wound no skill can heal: a nose so magnificent it seems to mock him. He loves Roxane, the only woman whose opinion matters, but convince himself that such a face as his could never win her heart. So when the handsome but tongue-tied Christian asks for his help, Cyrano makes a devastating choice. He will give Christian his words, his poetry, his wit. He will make Christian irresistible. And he will watch the woman he loves fall for another man's lips. What follows is a devastating comedy of errors that builds toward one of the most heartbreaking conclusions in all of theater. Rostand's 1897 masterpiece captures something universal: the terror of being truly seen, the ache of loving someone from a distance, and the strange nobility of selfless devotion.