14/07/2026
🎭 AUDITION NOTICE 🎭
Cyrano De Bergerac written by Edmond Rostand and Glyn Maxwell and directed by Margaret Bennett
READING: Tuesday 21st July at 7.30 pm
AUDITIONS: Thursday 23rd July at 7.30 pm
PERFORMANCE DATES: Saturday 7th, Monday 9th to Saturday 14th November.
This is a love story with plenty of 17th-century panache and comedy
Cyrano de Bergerac, a nobleman soldier in the French Army, is a brash, strong-willed man of many creative talents and enemies.
In addition to being a remarkable duelist, he is a gifted poet and playwright. Though, because of his noticeably large nose, he feels this prevents him from expressing his love for his distant cousin, the beautiful and intellectual Roxane, he believes that his ugliness would bar him from the "dream of being loved by even an ugly woman.".
Of course, Roxane loves another, Christian de Neuvillette, an army cadet, who is too tongue-tied and guileless to romance her, though he too loves her. Cyrano helps the young Christian once he knows of Roxanne's feelings, famously assisting Christian by providing the most wonderful love letters to Roxane pretending to be sent by Christian, even during a siege battle, risking his life to deliver them. Of course, there is some delicious confusion regarding this courtship, and a sad plot twist
CASTING:
There are 5 main male roles and 1 main female role
There are also 6 gender indifferent roles - these people will need to play a selection of parts of both male and female, sometimes with lines, sometimes as part of the action. They range from a convent of nuns to a corps of fighting army cadets.
All characters will be required to be tutored in the art of fencing and fighting, which will be provided.
If you'd like any more information, contact Margaet Bennett at [email protected].
