Du 17 juin au 28 septembre 1963, eleventh season

Translated by Brian Hooker



Adapted for the Festival Theatre by Michael Langham

Directed by Michel Langham

Designed by Tanya Moiseiwitsch and Desmond Heeley

Music by Louis Applebaum



Characters in order of appearance :



Porter : Mervyn Blake

A Flower Girl : Claire Marshall

A citizen : Al Kozlik

Citizen's Son : Bob Nisbet

A Pickpocket : Lewis Gordon

First Musketeer : Len Birman

D'Artagnan : James Douglas

Cuigy, an Officer : Max Helpmann

Brissaille, an Officer : Claude Bede

Bellerose, Manager of the Theatre : Ken Pauli

First Fop : Jake Dengel

Second Fop : Garrick Hagon

Ligniere, a Poet :Joseph Shaw

Christian de Neuvillette, in love with Roxane : Peter Donat

Ragueneau, a Pastry Cook : Eric Christmas

Carbon de Castel-Jaloux, friend to Cyrano : William Hutt

Roxane, (Madeleine Robin) : Diana Maddox

Duenna to Roxane : Amelia Hall

Comte de Guiche, in love with Roxane : Leo Ciceri

Vicomte de Valvert, his friend : Donnely Rhodes

Montfleury, an Actor : William Needles

Jodelet, a Comedian : Hugh Webster

Cyrano de Bergerac : John Colicos

Lisa, wife to Ragueneau : Kate Reid

A Journalis : Mervyn Blake

Cadets : Fred Euringer - Ted Hodgeman - Edwin Stephenson - Rick Quigley - Joseph Rutten - John Watts

Capuchin Monk : Hugh Webster

Bertrandou : William Needles

Spanish Officer : Max Helpmann

Mother Marguerite : Christiane Bennet

Sister Marthe : Kate Reid

Sister Claire : Amelia Hall

Cooks, Poets, Actors, Actresses, Precieuses, Scullions, Nuns, Lackeys, Escorts, Spaniards : Moira Blackstock - Bridget Blackwell - David Britton - Len Cariou - Norma Cartwright - Clare Coulter - Angela Fusco - Rita Howell - Susan Learned - Joel Michaels - Louis Negin - Adrian Pecknold - Nelson Phillips - Kelly Ross - Nicholas Simons.

Children : Gleave Harris - Murray Scott - Donald Shipley

Stage Musicians : Robert Comber - Donald Hyder - Eli Kassner - William Kuinka - Ronald Laurie

Assistant to Mr. Langham : Fred Euringer



Fights arranged by Patrick Crean



Cadets' song staged by Alan Lund





There will be two intermissions of 12 minutes each.





Act I. A Performance at the Hôtel de Bourgogne, 1640

Act I. Sc. The Bakery of the Poets.

Act II. Roxane's Kiss

Act III. The Siege of Arras

Act III. Cyrano's Gazette, 1655