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MYSTERIOUS: Cyrano de bergerac - What They Never Told You

Father Ted actor Ben Keaton dies suddenly aged 69: ‘We are all in shock’

Olivier winner Ben Keaton was best known for roles in ‘Father Ted’ and ‘Emmerdale’

The Independent UK

Top Films: w/c Saturday, January 31

Top films to watch week beginning Saturday, January 31

The Independent UK

Cyrano de Bergerac review – Adrian Lester brings sublime soul to roistering romance

The giant-hootered lover ventriloquising his passion for Roxane through a physically dashing rival is the standout star of this warm and likable revival

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Adrian Lester and Alfred Enoch lead Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘global’ new season

Joint artistic directors Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey say 2025/26 programme is celebration of ‘a 21st-century RSC’

The Guardian - UK

Outlander’s Sam Heughan to play Macbeth in Royal Shakespeare Company debut

The British theatre company has announced a new raft of programming.

Evening Standard

Gerard Depardieu: A Tarnished French Film Icon

Gerard Depardieu was a titan of French cinema for more than 50 years but a sexual assault conviction, a string of other allegations and several instances of lewd behaviour now cast a long, dark shadow over what was once a glittering career.

International Business Times

Manuscript sold for €300 is now attributed to Cyrano de Bergerac – but questions remain about the play’s authorship

French researchers recently published an edition of a previously unknown 17th-century French play that they argue could be attributed to the French satirist and dramatist Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac.

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5 of the best free movies to stream on Tubi, Pluto TV, Plex, and more this week (January 20)

From Oscar-winning rom-coms to underrated musicals, there’s plenty to watch on the best free streaming services this week.

TechRadar

Edinburgh festival 2024: 20 theatre shows making a scene this summer

With subjects ranging from the deadly serious to the downright silly, this year’s shows include plays about addiction, politics, funk and Come Dine With Me

The Guardian - UK

Bernhardt/Hamlet review – Kate Mulvany is astonishingly good

Melbourne Theatre Company, Sumner TheatreMulvany juggles comedy and vulnerability in her performance as the grand dame who decides to liven up her career by playing Shakespeare’s Dane

The Guardian - AU

James McAvoy, Best Actor at ES Theatre Awards 2022: ‘Theatre is changing for the better’

He won the award for his standout role in Cyrano de Bergerac, whose director Jamie Lloyd called him, ‘Quite simply the greatest actor of our generation’

Evening Standard

Anthony Burgess translation of Molière’s The Miser comes to light for first time

The A Clockwork Orange author’s translation – complete with recording – hailed as significant literary discovery

The Guardian - UK

Cyrano review – Virginia Gay shines in this bold, queer reimagining

Southbank Theatre, Melbourne Theatre CompanyAfter being scuppered by a snap lockdown in 2021, Gay’s highly anticipated take on Cyrano turns out to have been worth waiting for

The Guardian - AU

Who was Edmond Rostand? Google Doodle celebrates Cyrano de Bergerac writer

Cyrano de Bergerac remains one of the most popular plays in France.

Evening Standard

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Daily Record

James McAvoy reveals he gets stick in Scotland for 'sounding English' after years in London

The 42-year-old actor appeared on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert to promote Cyrano de Bergerac, which is now performing at Brooklyn Academy of Music for the next eight weeks.

Salon

The real man behind Cyrano de Bergerac

We know little about the real-life playwright, satirist, novelist and duelist Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac

ABC News

Cyrano musical adaptation starring Peter Dinklage jettisons comedy for sincerity, with mixed results

A charismatic wordsmith helps his tongue-tied friend woo the woman of their dreams via letters, in Joe Wright's take on Edmond Rostand’s 19th century comedy.

The Guardian - UK

Cyrano review – Peter Dinklage woos to no avail in Joe Wright’s musical romance

Overegged direction and forgettable songs leave the ever great Dinklage and Sicily’s glorious scenery with too much work to do

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Review: Peter Dinklage earns your love in the snazzy (but not schnozzy) musical 'Cyrano'

Since "Cyrano de Bergerac" has always been about the superficial nature of appearances, there's something fitting about the exterior renovations that have given rise to Joe Wright's sweet, earnest and sometimes enchanting new "Cyrano." For starters, the movie is a full-blown musical: Its roots lie not only in Edmond Rostand's…

The Guardian - UK

Romance, 14th-century style: why cinema has fallen for courtly love

From Cyrano to The Last Duel, the world of medieval chivalry is big on screen – and its preoccupation with appearances isn’t so far from our own

The Guardian - UK

James McAvoy: ‘Play Hamlet? Nah – he’s always seemed a bit of a moaner to me’

He came blazing out of Glasgow like a rocket, scoring hits and acclaim. As he returns to the stage in a hard-rapping, homoerotic Cyrano de Bergerac, the star talks about partygate, snout size – and tackling Lear when he hits 100

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