Adrian Lester’s theatre credits include: Henry V, Othello (National Theatre; Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actor), Company (Donmar Warehouse/West End; Olivier Award for Best Actor), As You Like It (Cheek By Jowl), Red Velvet (London and New York; Critics’ Circle Best Actor Award), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and The Lehman Trilogy (Broadway; Tony Award nomination for Best Actor).
He is soon to appear in TV drama PONIES (Sky TV) and new movie Mutiny (on general release August 2026). Other television credits include: Sandman, Hustle, Undeclared War, Undercover, Life, Trauma, Trigger Point and London Spy. Film credits include: Primary Colors, The Day After Tomorrow, As You Like It, Dust and Mary, Queen of Scots.
‘No master to serve, no leash to bear. I walk as I please, and I speak as I dare.’
Poet, soldier and philosopher. Cyrano de Bergerac burns with brilliance.
Fiercely funny and intensely romantic – Cyrano lives by his words and his sword.
Haunted by doubts about his own appearance, he watched from the shadows as Roxane falls for another man. Handsome but hopeless with words, Christian turns to the one person who can help.
Following a sold-out, critically acclaimed run with the Royal Shakespeare Company, this ‘hilariously funny and ultimately heartbreaking’ (Mail on Sunday) production transfers to the West End for a strictly limited season. Olivier Award-winner Adrian Lester (Riviera, Hustle) is ‘perfect’ (The Times) as protagonist Cyrano, with Susannah Fielding (Wolf Hall) as the ‘instantly charming’ (The Stage) Roxane. Directed by Simon Evans (Staged, The Dazzle) and co-adapted with Debris Stevenson (Poet in Da Corner), Edmund Rostand’s timeless classic is reimagined with exhilarating wit, lyricism and heart.
Need to know: Cyrano De Bergerac plays at the Noël Coward Theatre until 5 Sep 2026 |
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