The Romancers: A Comedy in Three Acts

Three years before conquering the world with Cyrano, Edmond Rostand wrote this glittering farce about the theatricality of love itself. Two young people, Sylvette and Percinet, fall desperately in love across the wall separating their feuding families, believing their romance is forbidden and their passion unprecedented. What they don't know: their fathers have been staging the entire feud, stage-managing secret meetings, and engineering a fake abduction to bring their children together. Rostand's comedy pulses with youthful energy and verbal brilliance, a play that knows love is always partly performance yet celebrates the beautiful absurdity of believing in one's own unique, unprecedented romance. The Romancers is a sparkling comedy about the lies we tell to make love possible, and the truth that sometimes grows from those fictions.