A large double door is half open to let in the audience. The entrance to the theatre is centre-back, under the gallery of boxes. There are no seats in the pit, which is the real stage of our theatre: at the back of the pit, on the right foreground, some benches form steps, and underneath a stairway which leads to the upper galleries an improvised buffet is ornamented with little tapers, flower vases, crystal glasses, plates of cakes, bottles, etc. There are two tiers of side galleries: the highest divided into boxes. Broad steps lead from the stage to the hall on either side of these steps are places for the violinists. Above a harlequin’s cloak are the royal arms. The curtain is composed of two tapestries that can be drawn apart. On both sides of the stage along the wings are benches. The hall is oblong and we see it obliquely, so that one of its sides forms the back scene and runs from the right foreground, to meet the left background where it makes a right angle with the stage prepared for the production, which is partially visible. A sort of tennis-court arranged and decorated for a theatrical production.
The Crowd, troopers, citizens (male and female), marquises, musketeers, pickpockets, pastry-cooks, poets, Gascon cadets, actors (male and female), violinists, pages, children, soldiers, Spaniards, spectators (male and female), précieuses (intellectuals), nuns, etc.Ī Theatrical Production at the Burgundy Hotel L'ILLUSTRATION, 8 January 1898, Wikimedia Commons ‘Coquelin dans la rôle de Cyrano de Bergerac’ Permission to perform this version of the play, on stage or film, by amateur or professional companies, and for commercial purposes, should be requested from the translator. This work may be freely reproduced, stored and transmitted, electronically or otherwise, for any non-commercial purpose. Kline © Copyright 2003 All Rights Reserved
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