cYRANO DE BERGERAC
HARVEY THEATRE, BAM, NEW YORK CITY March - May 2022
GLASGOW THEATRE ROYAL, GLASGOW March 2022
HAROLD PINTER THEATRE, WEST END Feb - March 2022
PLAYHOUSE THEATRE, WEST END Dec 2019 - Feb 2020
Writer: MARTIN CRIMP
Director: JAMIE LLOYD
Design: SOUTRA GILMOUR
Lighting Design: JON CLARK
Sound Design: BEN AND MAX RINGHAM
photos: Mark Brenner
REVIEWS
Jon Clark’s lighting is subtle, so when it eventually punches, it’s a knockout.
Kenzie Bryant - Vanity Fair (15-04-2022)
’Lloyd and his design team have created a world that’s not the 1640 France of Edmond Rostand’s play, but is not quite 2022 Brooklyn, either. Lloyd’s work with his collaborators Soutra Gilmour (set and costumes) and Jon Clark (lighting) captured this similarly out-of-time and somewhat alien-feeling world in their production of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal on Broadway in 2019. Where Gilmour’s minimal set and Clark’s icy blue lighting felt emotionally distancing in that production, here they feel integral to a world in which Cyrano is isolated from everyone else. As he delivers a long letter to Roxanne at the end of the first act, Cyrano is lit with that signature Clark/Lloyd shade of blue and it feels like a reflection of his longing’. Lane Williamson, Exeunt Magazine New York (18-04-22)
’…visually and sonically, the production is perfect. Costume and set designer Soutra Gilmour’s set is restrained but pointed: a plywood box, pale as paper, that in the second act becomes a set of stairs to nowhere. She and lighting designer Jon Clark make it starkly effective. After we’ve grown used to the shallow playing area, it feels almost like a special effect when we see how much black emptiness lies behind it’. Helen Shaw - Vulture, New York Magazine (14-04-22)
