Word: cyrano
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Connell's acting ability does the complex and exciting role justice. Loving and tender one minute, brash and forceful the next, his performance has incredible emotional range. And Connell insures that Cyrano's boisterous wit is constant through all vicissitudes. His wit infects the charmed audience which cannot help but cheer for him as he abides by his personal motto to "live as I please...
Connell also effortlessly displays the physical agility that is one of Cyrano's hallmarks. He duels skillfully on stage and in the theatre aisles, both with human enemies and the spectres of his own insecurities...
...play and Connell are at their best when the hero confronts his seemingly futile love for the beautiful Roxane. Cyrano is certain she will scorn him if he reveals his true feelings for her because, despite his bravado, he is monstrously insecure about the nose "which marches before him a quarter of an hour...
Because of the insecurity and subsequent silence of Cyrano, his interaction with Roxane is only vicarious. He expresses his love for her by wooing her on behalf of the handsome but inarticulate Christian de Neuvillette...
...Cyrano composes the lyrics that de Neuvillette cannot. He articulates the sentiments that de Neuvillette feels but cannot express to the woman he adores. Cyrano counsels de Neuvillette to "take my words and turn to facts my fantasies." Roxane, already enamoured of de Neuvillette's good looks, instantly falls in love with the fantasies Cyrano pens on behalf of de Neuvillette...