Aurora Theatre’s solid new adaptation of the Cyrano de Bergerac story, but the trimmed-down production loses some of the wit and passion.
Cyrano de Bergerac confides in his friend Count de Guiche in “Cyrano” at Berkeley’s Ashby Stage.Cyrano is a character that everyone nose — uh, knows. Edmond Rostand’s 1897 play “Cyrano de Bergerac” introduced the witty swordsman with the enormous proboscis, and he’s been unforgettable ever since.
His is the latest of many such adaptations. Over the last several years, completely different versions of “Cyrano” have played TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, the Livermore Shakespeare Festival and Petaluma’s Cinnabar Theater. An adaptation by San Francisco playwright Marissa Skudlarek was scheduled to premiere with Cutting Ball Theater in 2020 but was waylaid by the pandemic.
It’s now a play for five performers, only one of whom plays a double role. Costello is blessed here with a strong cast of local performers, all of whom have been in previous Aurora productions. Ron Campbell is comically foppish and haughty as Count de Guiche, accustomed to wealth, rank and privilege making up for his lack of wit and charm. Imperious with Cyrano, he’s touchingly vulnerable at the slightest hint of favor from Roxane.
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