![]() ![]() We’ve seen this classic love story adapted for high schools (three times in the past four years) and a fire station in the Pacific Northwest. Just as it became fashionable at the turn of the century to adapt Shakespeare to a high school context, over the past 35 years Cyrano de Bergerac has nosed his (or increasingly her) way into settings far from the original 17th century France. It’s been adapted for the screen nearly as frequently. ![]() Over the past 125 years, Cyrano de Bergerac has been staged on Broadway and the West End countless times, with actors from John Gielgud to Kevin Kline to James McAvoy in the title role. If you think it’s a bit much that we get a new Batman every five years, you ain’t seen nothing yet. But in the case of Cyrano, there’s a truly astonishing amount of competition. ![]() ![]() After all, he won international acclaim for portraying Tyrion Lannister, the most beloved character on one of the most successful TV shows of the 21st century. Such a beloved and accomplished actor as Dinklage would ordinarily have no trouble making the role his own. Peter Dinklage stars as the title character in Cyrano, Joe Wright’s musical adaptation of Edmond Rostand’s 1897 classic, with music by the National. This weekend, one of the most celebrated characters in the Western literary canon returns to the big screen. ![]()
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