More obtrusive and even less insightful are all the references to cultural appropriation, the male gaze, gender fluidity, political correctness and other indications that we’re more in the year 2022 than the year Rostand wrote the play, 1897, or the year in which he set the play, 1640. The Jamie Lloyd Company’s production of Crimp’s “Cyrano de Bergerac” made its American debut Thursday.Ĭrimp’s very modern version abounds in the usual four-letter words, used for easy comic effect. What’s transpires on stage at BAM’s Harvey Theatre is the bare bones of Edmond Rostand’s original story about a facially challenged man who speaks and writes poetry so that another man, Christian, can be loved by the gravely deceived Roxane. Actually, the subtext in Martin Crimp’s new version of “Cyrano de Bergerac” is the text. When great actors play the subtext of a classic, sometimes wonderful and sometimes strange things happen on stage.
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