CYRANO – Film Soundtrack (Decca Records) Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The much-lauded new version of the Cyrano de Bergerac tale is being released and with it the soundtrack album. Starring Peter Dinklage in the eponymous role, this production takes on a new dimension. Usually Cyrano is portrayed with a large […]
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Film review: Cyrano
Cyrano, in cinemas from 25 February 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ So, a man (who is a writer and a poet and a duellist) loves a woman (who is written as a woman and… pretty?). The man is a bit insecure about his looks, so instead of talking to the […]
Remembering Christopher Plummer – An actor for all time
The veteran Canadian actor Christopher Plummer, who has died at the age of 91, was a man of impressive stature with a commanding presence, which fitted the parts he played. Rarely a performer to take on the role of the average man, he was an actor born to play kings and kaisers, grand dukes and […]
Cyrano – Daryl Roth Theatre, New York
Cyrano continues at the Daryl Roth Theatre, New York until 22 December 2019. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Peter Dinklage, the small-statured, habitually award-winning actor from HBO’s Game of Thrones, takes on Cyrano de Bergerac in a new Off-Broadway musical adaptation – succinctly entitled Cyrano – of the Edmond Rostand classic. […]
