西拉诺·德·贝尔热拉克：一部浪漫悲剧的经典改编

WHAT’S THE GREATEST role in all of drama? There’s Hamlet, of course. It’s hard to discount Willy Loman. But, by a nose, it might just be Cyrano de Bergerac. In the last couple of decades alone, the likes of James McAvoy, Adrian Lester and Kevin Kline have taken to the stage in the title role of the play, Edmond Rostand’s account of mistaken love and poetry, inspired by the real-life French figure. On the big screen, José Ferrer won an Oscar in 1951 for playing Cyrano, that dashing, noble, tragic figure; Steve Martin both wrote and starred in a thoroughly modern incarnation in 1987’s Roxanne; before Janeane Garofalo gender-swapped it in the 1990s for The Truth About Cats & Dogs; …