https://media.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/humdiv/torch/post_show_conversations/2022-06-07-torch-psc-cyrano.mp3
A TORCH Post-show Conversation podcast about the Jamie Lloyd Company's production of Cyrano de Bergerac.
This conversation was recorded between Nora Baker and Ruth Moore on 8 March 2022 on location in London. It explores Nora's responses to the adaptation, and the ways it connects with her doctoral research. It was recorded on board the Oxford Tube coach to capture the immediacy of response - we trust occasional sound distortion and background noise will not detract from Nora's fascinating insights!
TORCH Post-show Conversations is a series of informal, 'on location' conversations between Oxford researchers in response to a current theatre production. Designed to capture 'on the night' responses to performance, the Conversations give listeners a chance to eavesdrop on the intersections between research and theatre practice, and give researchers the opportunity to respond in real time to the best of theatre. Variation in sound quality comes from recording in public spaces or in transit. A full transcript will be available in due course, in the meantime please contact TORCH if you have any questions about this conversation.
About the play:
From the Harold Pinter Theatre's website:
The Jamie Lloyd Company’s Olivier award-winning production of Cyrano De Bergerac returns, following a sold-out season at the Playhouse Theatre in 2019. James McAvoy reprises his critically acclaimed role in this unmissable revival of Edmond Rostand’s masterwork, inventively and ingeniously adapted by Martin Crimp. Jamie Lloyd directs a world-class cast, in an electrifying ensemble performance that celebrates linguistic ingenuity and the power of human connection.
Fierce with a pen and notorious in combat, Cyrano almost has it all - if only he could win the heart of his true love. There’s just one big problem: he has a nose as huge as his heart. Will a society engulfed by narcissism get the better of De Bergerac - or can his mastery of language set Roxane’s world alight?
About the contributor:
Nora Baker is a third-year DPhil student in French Literature at Jesus College, Oxford. Her current research focuses on memoirs written by Huguenot refugees following the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. Originally from Galway, Ireland, she completed an undergraduate degree in French and Italian in her hometown and spent a year on Erasmus in Toulouse before coming to University College, Oxford, for her Masters degree. She is supervised by Catriona Seth at All Souls College.
Introduction & production by Ruth Moore
