Cyrano de Bergerac

A Script Reading Project

Featuring members of the Penn Theatre Arts community and Philadelphia professional Greg Wood

7pm   March 18 , 2011

Hollinger’s new translation aims to be spare and actor-friendly; immediate and theatrical; and true to the poetic sense of the original, though it does not adhere to Rostand’s strict meter and rhyming couplets. Rather, lyricism becomes a quality that waxes and wanes depending on the dramatic needs of each scene, and is developed through a range of poetic devices, including end rhyme, internal rhyme, alliteration, assonance, consonance, etc.