Hello,
This is our press release for our upcoming Bergen County tour of "Cyrano De Bergerac". For more information you can call 973-525-3565 or respond to this email.
Love Nosing from the Shadows
The Hudson Shakespeare Company will be launching the start of its 22nd annual Summer Shakespeare in the park series with "Cyrano de Bergerac" By Edmund Rostand and directed by Gene Simakowicz touring to sites in Bergen County. The swashbuckling man with huge romantic heart, knack for the grandiloquent turn of a poetic phrase, and equally large nasal appendage will be making the rounds in Fort Lee and Hackensack on:
* Tuesday, June 18th at Monument Park, 1576 Palisade Avenue, Fort Lee at 7:30pm
* Wednesday, June 19th at Staib Park, 174 Davis Avenue, Hackensack, at 7:30pm
* Tuesday, June 25 at Monument Park, 1576 Palisade Avenue, Fort Lee at 7:30pm
* Wednesday, June 26th at Staib Park, 174 Davis Avenue, Hackensack, at 7:30pm
Set in 1640's France, Cyrano (Jon Ciccarelli), poet, duelist, philosopher, soldier and sick with unrequited love, strives to be the true renaissance man but still can't get much respect or love due to his large nose always commanding attention. One day the object of his affection, his distant cousin Roxane (Laura Barbiea) tells him that she is in love with a new member of his cadet regiment, the dashing but stilted Christian (Matt Hansen). Cyrano decides that if he can't have happiness he'll help the poor young solider to woo Roxane. Roxane also has other suitors namely well connected and insufferable Lord DeGuiche (Tanner Garrett). Cyrano feeds Christian his well phrased and heartfelt poetry while keeping DeGuiche at bay and managing the crazy band of cadet soldiers - The Bold Cadets of Gascony.
Written in 1897 by neoclassic writer Edmund Rostand and based on the real French dramatist and duelist Hercule-Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac, "Cyrano" has become a pop culture staple in film, stage and books. In fictional works about his life he is featured with an overly large nose, and while period portraits suggest that he did have a big nose, its not nearly as large as normally depicted. However, as in most works of fiction elements like the nose have taken on a life and look all their own. described in works about him. Cyrano's work furnished models and ideas for subsequent writers.
The Hudson Shakespeare Company, now in its 22nd season of touring Shakespeare and classical works in Bergen County and around northern New Jersey. Patrons are encouraged to bring lawn chairs and blankets to performances. In case of inclement weather, shows at Staib Park, Hackensack will be relocated to the Hackensack Cultural Arts Center, 39 Broadway and shows at Monument park will be canceled and not be reschuedled. For more information, visit hudsonshakespeare.homestead.com or email at jciccarelli@hudsonshakespeare.org.
