CYRANO Character List

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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.