{"id":122479,"date":"2019-12-09T01:01:54","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T00:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/12\/09\/cyrano-de-bergerac-review-james-mcavoy-is-fierce-in-radical-reboot-of-romantic-classic\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T01:01:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T00:01:54","slug":"cyrano-de-bergerac-review-james-mcavoy-is-fierce-in-radical-reboot-of-romantic-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=122479","title":{"rendered":"Cyrano de Bergerac review \u2013 James McAvoy is fierce in radical reboot of romantic classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Playhouse, LondonVisual flummery and the famous nose are dispensed with in Martin Crimp\u2019s modern take on Rostand\u2019s proxy-wooing playThis version of Edmond Rostand\u2019s play, as adapted by Martin Crimp and directed by Jamie Lloyd, is not exactly Cyrano as we know it. It may not even be as we like it. But I found myself gradually warming to this radical deconstruction of Rostand\u2019s heroic comedy and totally captivated by James McAvoy\u2019s performance as the swaggering Gascon.We are supposedly in a French theatre in 1640. What we actually see is a cast in modern dress who frequently line up across the stage using hand or stand mics. We still get the familiar story of Cyrano\u2019s proxy wooing of Roxane by putting words into the mouth of the inarticulate Christian. But, although endless jests are made about Cyrano\u2019s conk, McAvoy doesn\u2019t sport the usual false appendage. While driven by doubts about his ugliness, this Cyrano is also arguably the best-looking man on stage. So what is going on? Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2019\/dec\/09\/cyrano-de-bergerac-review-james-mcavoy-playhouse-london-martin-crimp-rostand-nose-wooing\" target=\"_blank\">Cyrano de Bergerac review \u2013 James McAvoy is fierce in radical reboot of romantic classic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Playhouse, LondonVisual flummery and the famous nose are dispensed with in Martin Crimp\u2019s modern take on Rostand\u2019s proxy-wooing playThis version of Edmond Rostand\u2019s play, as adapted by Martin Crimp and directed by Jamie Lloyd, is not exactly Cyrano as we know it. It may not even be as we like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}