Cyrano de Bergerac - Edmond Rostand - Full Play
Aug 22, 2026 · 3 hr 59 min · 11 segments
Cyrano de Bergerac is a timeless exploration of love, identity, and the human condition, woven through the poignant tale of a brilliant poet and swordsman with a striking physical flaw—his oversized…
Act 1.
A sort of tennis court arranged and decorated for a theatrical performance.
The hall is oblong and seen obliquely so that one of its sides forms a back of the right foreground and meeting the left background makes an angle with the stage which is partly visible.
On both sides of the stage are benches.
A curtain is composed of two tapestries which can be drawn aside.
Above a harlequin's mantle are the royal arms.
There are broad steps from the stage to the hall.
On either side of these steps are the places for the violinists.
Footlights.
Two rows, one over the other, of side galleries, the highest divided into boxes.
No seats in the pit of the hall, which is the real stage of the theatre.
At the back of the pit, i.e. on the right foreground, some benches forming steps and underneath, a staircase which leads to the upper seats.
An improvised buffet ornamented with little lustres, vases, glasses, plates of tarts, cakes, bottles, etc.
The entrance to the theatre is in the centre of the background under the gallery of the boxes.
A large door, half open, to let in the spectators.
On the panel of this door, in different corners and over the buffet, red placards bearing the words, La Cloris.
At the rising of the curtain, the hall is in semi-darkness and still empty.
The lusters are lowered in the middle of the pit, ready to be lighted.
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