The Symbol Of Mysterious Nose In Cyrano's Roxane

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Some other essential props is a big fake, disgusting nose. Cyrano’s nose is of the utmost significance as it represents his insecurities. Although he often praises his nose and makes fun of his nose, his nose was the sole impediment to obtaining the love of Roxane. Cyrano is great at a lot of things, but his nose was his greatest failure. It was a symbol that intelligence and wisdom has no real correlation with physical features. Another prop would be parchment and a quill because letters are frequently exchanged between the characters. Cyrano stays up late nights writing about Roxane and what she means to him. These letters are a symbol of not only love, but also deception. The letters are where we can finally find Cyrano’s true identity. …show more content…

Lighting is the perfect way to deliver the mood, which I want to present during the play. The lighting will be dimmed throughout most parts of the play. Most of the lighting will be produced with candles due to the setting and the lack of technology. Also most of the scenes happened at night so we have to create a night time setting with the absence of light. The lighting will be able to add onto the dull and depressing feeling Cyrano feels when he has to live everyday watching Roxane and Christian in love. The increase of brightness will not only correspond with the time of day in the play, but it will also correspond with Cyrano’s increasing hope that he will finally take the opportunity to tell Roxane how he feels about her. I was thinking about incorporating spotlights during the monologues of some of the characters to intensify the attention of the audience on them. Cyrano’s dialogues are so powerful. His words are beautiful and angelic. I was thinking about to only having the spotlight on only Cyano whenever he is on stage, but then I realized that it will distract and interrupt the dialogue between other people on stage so I decided to only have the spotlight on Cyrano during his serious, more crucial scenes instead of the entire

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