A Cyrano De Bergerac for Our Times At BAM

Isa Freeling
2 min readApr 25, 2022
James McAvoy and Evelyn Miller in Cyrano De Bergerac

The superb James McAvoy and the Jamie Lloyd Company captivated the audience at the Harvey Theater at Brooklyn’s mecca for art and culture, BAM. Cyrano De Bergerac was written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand and took place in Paris in 1640. Martin Crimp revamped it and brought it into the 21st century channeling the Lin Manuel-Miranda hip hop vernacular and putting it into contemporary themes about love, relationships…

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Isa Freeling

I am an art and culture writer/adviser. You can find my work on HuffPost, The New York Daily News, Artlyst, NY Lifestyle Magazine, Culture Sonar, and Medium.