![]() ![]() And thus a virtual long-distance relationship ensues, which is really a ménage-à-trois.Īfter «The Three Musketeers», who continue to gallop across the Residenztheater stage, the Italian director Antonio Latella and his co-writer and dramaturg Federico Bellini now tackle the second great classic about famous swordsmen. Instead he becomes the ghost writer for his regimental colleague Christian de Neuvillette, whom Roxane loves for his beautiful exterior, but who is unable to write beautiful letters. However, what is probably the second most famous nose in world literature after Pinnochio’s seems to be an invention of the author, as is the fatal love triangle that dominates the play’s narrative: Cyrano loves Roxane but does not dare declare his passion because he is so ugly. However, rather than his own works he owes his fame more to the 1897 play by the new romantic dramatist Edmond Rostand whose hero bears his name and, like his historical predecessor, is a poet who serves as a musketeer with the Gascony cadets. The historical Cyrano de Bergerac lived the life of a dandy, duellist and poet, a philosopher of the early Enlightenment and a science fiction writer in 17 th century France. ![]()
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