Cyrano de Bergerac – Aesthetic director

19:00, Thu 14th – Sat 16th November 2024 at The Fitzpatrick Hall - MAINSTAGE

Well in no particular order...

I love you, I need you, I want you, I go to sleep thinking about you and wake up with your voice winding through my head, I look at you and I can't focus, the whole world shimmers, I'm ashamed, I'm angry, I'm in love.

You kiss my mouth, you bite my lip, you draw blood, you're on fire, you're on fire, your eyes are flame, your hair is flame, the whole world shimmers and I burn and I burn with love -

We are thrilled to announce Martin Crimp's spoken word 'Cyrano de Bergerac' as BATS Week 5 mainstage SHOWSTOPPER!!

Set in the glossy, wooden stretches of the Fitzpatrick Mainstage, we invite you to join us as we play with the guts of the theatre - tearing out its ropes, its ladders, its lights.

From the company that brought you 'Closer', and 'Much Ado About Nothing', the BATS Company is back and bigger than ever with our first mainstage production.

Devise. Understand. Study. Explore.

As a BATS production, we welcome the challenge of Crimp's 'Cyrano'. This script and this company is anchored in the pursuit of creating ensembles of artists, who grow in support and development of each other throughout the BATS process.

Our cast will be training through devised workshops, which will be led by a series of fantastic practitioners. We will be inviting a special guest from Frantic Assembly's Ignite to host workshops in lifts, fight choreography, and 'the frantic method'.

For our production team, we have organised specialised training from the Almeida's lighting designer, and a bespoke workshop from Scott Fleary - the set design and construction team for the National, Barbican, Old Vic, and Lyric theatres. We are incredibly fortunate to have received such a wealth of support from industry professionals.