Tonight I saw the second play in my Colorado Shakespeare Festival run, Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac. My recollection is that I saw this a year or two ago at Livermore Shakespeare, and this was another terrific production. The lead playing Cyrano was the the same actor who played Petruchio in last year’s Taming of the Shrew, and he did a great job. The entire cast was solid, especially the actors playing Roxane and Christian. They did a great job using a fixed edifice stage setting, and I found the ending particularly moving. I’m glad I got to see this even though I’d seen this play fairly recently.
Interestingly I ended up sitting next to two older sisters who I met last year in the rainy Taming of the Shrew who had the same actor. They remembered me, and I ultimately remembered them. One sister lives in the area, and one flies in every year for the festival like me. Small world.