The Village Renaissance Players will perform “Cyranose!” at the Village Renaissance Faire on September 17th and 18th, a lively improv adaptation of the Edmund Rostand play “Cyrano de Bergerac.”
Featuring sword fighting, scallywags and scurvy knaves, this production is fun for the entire family, involving audience participation and contemporary references which everyone will enjoy.
“We’ve taken a five-act play and reduced it down to a 20 minute improvisation skit,” said Feisty Fiona, (aka Ann Cole) director for this year’s production. “It’s tragic, it’s funny, it’s irreverent. And best of all, it changes every single time you see it.”
With actors from as far away as New York City performing, the improv group has 30 members, all of whom participate at the Faire in “Cyranose”, the crime and punishment skits, or Renaissance improv. “Our primary responsibility is to interact with the fairgoers, to help them embrace the experience thoroughly,” said Fiona.
The actors’ Renaissance personas are a varied type, including a French bride who is unable to remember nor find her groom, Joe DaVinci, Leonardo’s younger and inept brother, Maddie Legume, a purveyor of questionable vegetables, and a lost, shipwrecked Norwegian navigator named Sven.
The Village Renaissance Faire is Saturday and Sunday, September 17th and 18th, from 11:00am to 6:00pm at the Grange Fairgrounds, Penns Park Road, Wrightstown, PA. For more information, check out the Faire’s Web site, www.villagefaire.org.
PHOTO CAP: The Village Renaissance Players rehearse “Cyranose!” From left to right, Katie Cole, Jack McKeane, Marjorie Polunas, Sharon Dotts, Michael Thomforde, Nicole Jeck, Olga Vinogradova, Rick Deason (swordmaster), Bob DeMarco and James Niwinski.
