Cyrano de Bergerac Reviews

Ilona from London, England

WASTE OF 3 HOURS

Absolutely awful performance. Not worth any money or time. There are so many good plays inn west end, but not this one. The theatre is great and usually a place for a great performances, but not this time

Rostand from London, England

CYRANO DE BERGERAC

A waste of money. Passing relationship to the original, devoid of linguistic beauty and any emotional intensity. School productions have been better than this estaurine oikiishness and the cast and director should be embarrassed. You have let down the lead and have debased a great work and certainly not made its intrinsic truth relevant to today. A great opportunity missed.

Paolo Manca from London, England

DREADFUL

What a waste of money. There is nothing visual about this play at all. It could just about pass as a play on radio4. For a full west end theatre production it is very disappointing, in parts vulgar. In short an embarrassment.

Einstein from London, England

DIVERSITY OVER EVERYTHING

I spent the first 30 minutes wondering when the play was going to start properly and the next 2 hours struggling to stay awake. Luckily, there was quite a bit of random shouting from the cast to perk you up for a minute. With no scenery, no costumes as such and few actors, I wonder where my £70 actually went. I can’t understand the 5* reviews and have to echo the previous reviews re ‘Wokeness’.

Disgruntled from London, England

WASTE OF MONEY

My main issue is that for the first 1.30 of the production I couldn't see a thing ( could hear a lot of swearing, shouting and faux rapping !) I was in the cheap seats £38.15 in upper circle row J - but don't bother - restricted view really meant no view - especially if the person sitting in front of you decides to lean forward with feet out in the aisle with no consideration for those behind her. Decided to cut my loses and head home

Deborah from South East, England

CYRANO DE BERGERAC

I was really looking forward to this. Fortunately I went to see it at the cinema for the live showing so didn't pay as much as it would have cost to go to the theatre. Yes, it was clearly 'all about the words', as they emphasised by painting it on the wall but it felt like that was a good excuse to not provide any scenery . It looked like they were acting in a box and it was boring, tedious and slow. James McAvoy gave a brilliant performance but it felt ridiculous to keep on about his large nose and ugliness without any change to him. It felt like the producers were saying, "we can't be bothered, and we want it to be only about the words, so use your imagination, audience." As a result it was ridiculous. It was vulgar, contrived, juvenile and such a waste of a wonderful talent. I couldn't wait for it to end. A mixed up, woke attempt at what should have been a wonderful play, placed properly in modern times.

Lawrence from London, England

FARCICAL

First the good news: the play's run has ended in London so the only way you'll see it is by 'live streaming', which is a lot cheaper than going to the theatre and as it's now simply a film you can walk out whenever you want. The bad news: this 'play' has no redeeming features. It is not beautiful, neither visually nor aurally, it is not in the slightest bit engaging, it is coarse, crude and vulgar to no real purpose (and this from a man out of whose mouth expletives pour), it is, as others have mentioned, painfully adolescent in its 'wokeness' and its 'diversity'. More important however is that it is truly insulting too all members of the audience in its attempt to be 'relevant''. It is the measure of liberal, tolerant 'progressives'that they are totally oblivious to their own blunt and often very aggressive impositions on others and this 'play' has 'progressive' intolerance written all over it, from start to when I left at the end of Act 1 (though I do know what else was shoehorned in as a masochistic friend stayed till the end and told me what else had been included for no apparent reason other than to demonstrate 'relevance'). Ironic, huh!

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