Cyrano de Bergerac

American Sign Language Interpretation

is offered for select performances.

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This performance is ASL Interpreted.

Upcoming ASL-Interpreted Performances

MetamorphosesSaturday, May 4 at 1 p.m.

Friday, May 10 at 7:30 p.m.

CaughtSaturday, June 1 at 1 p.m.

Guys and DollsSaturday, July 13 at 1 p.m.

Friday, July 26 at 7:30 p.m.

Floyd’sSaturday, August 17 at 1 p.m.

Friday, August 23 at 7:30 p.m.

Cyrano de Bergerac is a poet, soldier and consummate swordsman with a prominent nose that keeps him from declaring his love for Roxane. But that’s his only vulnerability — he bullies actors from the stage, battles a hundred swordsmen alone, fights alongside his company of Gascon cadets and composes impeccable verse on the spot.

When Roxane tells him she loves a handsome new cadet named Christian, Cyrano selflessly takes the tongue-tied young man under his wing and helps him woo Roxane, who revels in language and poetry. Their plan works perfectly until Christian goes rogue and decides to speak for himself.

But Christian and Cyrano aren’t Roxane’s only suitors. The powerful Count de Guiche, who is no fan of Cyrano, has his own designs on Roxane. When the cadets are sent to war abroad, it is during the siege of Arras that love, heroism and the true Gascon heart are revealed.

PHOTO: JAY O. SANDERS AND JENNIE GREENBERRY (T CHARLES ERICKSON)

Synopsis

Character Signs Meet the Interpreters

Meet the Sign Master

Jon Ainsworth is a Deaf Twin Cities native. He grew up in the city’s library system. Armed with his brothers’ library cards and his own, he checked out multiple books and a total of 18 movies every week.

This embodied Jon’s profound passion for theater, literature, cinema and American pop culture. He studied English literature and ran a student TV production at Gallaudet University. He is currently a grant manager at ASL Interpreting Services. With that job, he runs several programs that improve the overall quality of communications for the Deaf and hard of hearing people in the state of Minnesota.

Cyrano de BergeracBent L at nose

Interpreted by James

Le BretL-B

Interpreted by Erin

Count de GuicheD like authority

Interpreted by both

RoxaneR drawing circles on right cheek

Interpreted by Erin

MontfleuryM like flower

Interpreted by Erin

RagueneauLSF sign for bake.

Similar to the ASL sign, but with both hands at shoulder height

Interpreted by Erin

ChristianC at right shoulder, like soldier

Interpreted by both

Erin Gardner is pleased to be back this season at the Guthrie, having previously interpreted such favorites as Tribes, Roman Holiday, Taming of the Shrew and My Fair Lady. She also interprets for

Broadway Across America, Chanhassen Dinner Theaters and History Theater, among others. In addition to her interpreting work, Erin is an actress who has been seen on stages all over the Twin Cities, including numerous productions here at the Guthrie. A nationally certified freelance interpreter, she attended the interpreter training program at St. Catherine University, and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theater from Southern Methodist University.

James Gardner is honored to be back interpreting at the Guthrie. He has interpreted for such shows as Tribes, Romeo and Juliet, The Crucible, Born Yesterday, Master Butcher’s Singing Club,

among others. Before becoming an interpreter, he received his B.A. in Theater Arts: Acting at the University of Northern Iowa. He has been a nationally certified for over 15 years and has been interpreting for many theater venues during that tenure. James has toured nationally as an actor with deaf theater companies, Sunshine, Too in Rochester, New York, and the National Theatre of the Deaf in Hartford, Connecticut, as well as recently with Mixed Blood Theater and “The Deaf Duckling.”