Further casting announced for CYRANO DE BEGERAC

Shehrazade Zafar-Arif 23 April, 2026, 11:18

The full cast has been revealed for the Royal Shakespeare Company's critically acclaimed production of Cyrano de Bergerac, which opens at the Noel Coward Theatre this summer.

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The cast

Joining the previous announced Adrian Lester (Henry V, Othello) as Cyrano and Susannah Fielding (The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream) as Roxane, Levi Brown will reprise his role as Christian. Brown played the leading role in Stephen Knight’s drama This Town on BBC 1, for which he was nominated for Best Breakthrough Performance at both the Edinburgh TV Awards and Royal Television Society Awards. He is currently filming the new series of Line of Duty for BBC1.

Also returning to their roles are Joseph Christain as Edmond, Sunny Chung as Sister Claire/Madame Jodolet, Philip Cumbus as Le Bret, Greer Dale-Foulkes as Abigail, Rachel Dawson as Ann-Sofie, Oliver Grant as Jean, Scott Handy as Comte de Guiche, David Mildon as Jodolet/Carbon, Matt Mordak as Valvert/Pierre, Daniel Norford as Louis, Chris Nayak as Monfleury/Bernard, Christian Patterson as Ragueneau and Josh Sneesby as Raphael. Robert Jackson joins the cast as Arnauld alongside Taiva Hove, Joshua Maduike and Elim Mapira who will share the role of Small Boy.

Cyrano de Bergerac

Based on the 1897 play by Edmond Rostand's, this is the story of legendary poet and duelist Cyrano de Bergerac, who is madly in love with the beautiful Roxane, but is convinced his enormous nose means she'll never reciprocate. Instead he finds himself helping the handsome but inarticulate Christian de Neuvillette woo Roxane by writing love letters on his behalf. Roxane falls deeply in love with Christian, not realising the true lover behind the letters is actually Cyrano. What follows is hilarity and misunderstanding, followed by violence and tragedy.

Director Simon Evans (Staged, BBC) co-adapts with Debris Stevenson (My Brother’s a Genius). The production had a sold-out run at the RSC in Stratford-upon-Avon last year.

The creative team

The full creative team includes Set and Costume Designer Grace Smart; Lighting Designer Joshie Harriette; Composer Alex Baranowski; Sound Designer Donato Wharton; Movement Director Sarita Piotrowski; Fight and Intimacy Director Bethan Clark; Dramaturg Rebecca Latham for the RSC; Casting Director Matthew Dewsbury CDG for the RSC, Music Director Josh Sneesby, Voice and Text by Barbara Houseman, Associate Director Lydia McKinley and Children’s Casting Director Charlie Metcalf for the RSC.