Cyrano is a huge play. Five acts, five different locations over 15 years. Over fourty named parts. Seven Principals, seventeen featured roles and twenty ensemble parts. Many parts will be doubled. Ensemble actors that play flute, recorder, strings, lute / guitar are needed. There is singing. There is stage combat. Cyrano, Valvert, the Guardsman and the Muskekteer must fence and will be taught if needed. The entire play is in verse. This is going to be fun!
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Character | Male / Female | Principal / Featured / Ensemble | Description |
Cyrano de Bergerac | Male | Principal | The main character of the play. He is a soldier, poet, philosopher, and scientist — a man of immense courage, versatility, and talent. He has an enormous nose and is very sensitive about it. He is an expert swordsman and challenges anyone who mentions his nose. He jealously guards his intellectual freedom, even though he suffers poverty. His integrity and innate nobility of spirit are the theme of the play. Stage combat and fencing required. |
Roxane | Female | Principal | Cyrano’s cousin, a beautiful, brillant woman with whom Cyrano, Christian and de Guiche are in love. She falls in love with Christian's beauty and (though she is unaware of it) Cyrano's mind. She is highly educated in language, manners, and dress. Christian is afraid that she would not love a plain-spoken man. Cyrano is afraid that because of his nose, she would refuse him. |
Christian de Neuvillette | Male | Principal | Christian is a handsome but simple young nobleman who lacks wit and intelligence. Brave in battle, he is inarticulate when talking with women. New to Paris and to the cadets, he falls in love with Roxane and joins Cyrano’s company of cadets early in the play. |
Comte de Guiche | Male | Principal | A powerful, cynical, married nobleman in love with Roxane and not fond of Cyrano. Richelieu's nephew, he wants Roxane as his mistress, and wishes her to marry Valvert. He is practical an very political. Solely for revenge against Christian and Cyrano, he sends the Gascony Guards to almost certain death. |
Ragueneau | Male | Principal | Cyrano’s friend, Ragueneau is a pastry chef with a deep love for poetry. He gives away pastries in return for poems, and, therefore, innumerable poets visit him frequently. A man of poor luck, he loses his wife, and his bakery. |
Le Bret | Male | Principal | Cyrano’s friend and closest confidant, Le Bret is a fellow soldier and guardsman. He worries that Cyrano’s principles will ruin his career, but Cyrano ignores Le Bret’s concerns. |
Duenna / Sister Marthe | Female | Principal | Roxane's chaperon and attendant. She aranges meetings between Roxane, Cyrano and Christian. Easily bribed with pastries and sweets. Later in the play she joins a convent and is known as Sister Marthe. |
Carbon de Castel-Jaloux | Male | Featured | The commander of the Gascony Guards. Cyrano’s friend and the captain of his company, de Castel-Jaloux is a strong-willed and successful leader. |
Vicomte de Valvert | Male | Featured | A viscount who insults Cyrano by referring to his nose. He is the man De Guiche wants Roxane to marry. It is he with whom Cyrano duels while composing a poem. Stage combat and fencing required. |
Lise | Female | Featured | The unfaithful wife of Ragueneau. |
Monifleury | Male | Featured | An overweight actor, one of Roxane's suitors. He has incurred Cyrano's displeasure and has been forbidden by Cyrano to act on the stage for three weeks. |
Bellerose | Male | Featured | Manager of the theater that Cyrano closes by not allowing Montfleury to act. |
]odet | Male | Featured | A comedian in the same theater. |
Cuigy | Male | Featured | A minor nobleman and hanger-on, Cuigy is always at the fringe of Paris nightlife. |
Ligniere | Male | Featured | Christian’s friend, Lignière is a satirist and drunkard with many powerful enemies. Cyrano protects him from the hundred men hired by de Guiche to ambush him. |
Brissaille | Male | Featured | Cuigy’s friend, Brissaille is a minor nobleman. |
Mother Marquerite | Female | Featured | Mother Superior of Roxane’s convent, Marguérite de Jésus is compassionate. She admires and respects Cyrano and therefore allows him to visit whenever he wishes. |
Sister Claire | Female | Featured | Nun in the convent where Roxane goes to live. |
Foodseller | Female | Featured | A seller of food in the theater |
Flowergirl | Female | Ensemble | A seller of flowers in the theater |
Actress | Female | Ensemble | A member of the acting company |
Theophraste Renaudot | Male | Ensemble | A self-important poet |
Capuchin | Male | Featured | A dim witted monk |
Bertrandou (flute player) | Male | Ensemble | A musician - Flute or Recorder ideal |
Doorkeeper | Male | Ensemble | At the theater |
Cavalryman | Male | Ensemble | A patron of the theater - Stage combat and fencing required. |
Musketeer | Male | Featured | A patron of the theater - Stage combat and fencing required. |
a Guard | Male | Ensemble | A patron of the theater - there to see the flower girl |
a Fat Man | Male | Ensemble | A patron of the theater - eating before the performance |
a Citizen | Male | Featured | A patron of the theater - a little pompus |
His Son | Male | Featured | A patron of the theater |
a Drunkard | Male / Female | Ensemble | A patron of the theater - having a good time |
a Pickpocket | Male | Featured | Working the theater crowd |
Flunkey 1 | Male | Ensemble | Works for the theater - Guitar / Flute / Violin ideal |
Flunkey 2 | Male | Ensemble | Works for the theater - Guitar / Flute / Violin ideal |
Page / Child 1 | Male / Female | Ensemble | A patron of the theater |
Page / Child 2 | Male / Female | Ensemble | A patron of the theater |
First MARQUIS | Male | Ensemble | A patron of the theater |
Second MARQUIS | Male | Ensemble | A patron of the theater |
Cooks (3 to 6) | Male | Ensemble | Cooks and apprentices in Ragueneau's Bakery |
Poets (3 to 5) | Male | Ensemble | Begger Poets that Ragueneu feeds |
Cadets (5 to 8) | Male | Ensemble | Improverished Gascon Barons in the Gascony Guards |
Spanish Officer | Male | Ensemble | Off-stage voice demanding the surrender of the Gascony Guards |
Spectorators / Crowd | Male / Female | Ensemble | At the theater |
Nuns | Female | Ensemble | Nuns in the convent where Roxane goes to live. |
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