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Cyrano de Bergerac review " swashbuckling ugly duckling, drowned in sound by Mark Fisher

Tramway, Glasgow The thwarted lover story, retold in dazzling Glaswegian Scots, has raucous spirit and flamboyant hairpieces but its verbal flourishes are lost in acoustic fogEdwin Morgan's 1992 translation of Edmond Rostand's romantic drama is a work of tremendous vigour. Funny, playful and bold, it is written in a linguistically expansive Glaswegian Scots, as dazzling in its breadth of vocabulary as it is audacious…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36AM on September 7, 2018

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