Feb 6, 2025
Like that English lord, I too have had my mournful silences.
Cyrano de Bergerac (1985), Royal Shakespeare Company
#Cyrano de Bergerac#Royal Shakespeare Company#Edmond Rostand#Anthony Burgess#Derek Jacobi#Sinéad Cusack#Tom Mannion#gifset#plays#theatre#quotations#ceci je l'ai fait#(gif 2 is the mournful silence btw. or at least yet another mournful silence in a lifetime of them)#added the quote bc without context it looks like Roxane is comparing Cyrano to Christian#which she is not#CYRANO is comparing Cyrano to Christian! 😊#also Jacobi's delivery here... ough#this is the first time I've heard this line done as Cyrano himself being completely sold on the idea that he & Christian are one man#that 'so I am' is as if he's seeing his own face from an out-of-body experience#& then comes crashing back down into it & is trying to reconcile that feeling w the fact that they are actually separate beings#despite what he's convinced Roxane (& himself)#or merely that the fantasy of getting to wear Christian's face as his mask/interpreter came dangerously close to reality#& now he feels as if he has to go back to being himself. to return Christian's face to him. which he'll use to go up to Roxane to kiss her.#*Cyrano voice* god it's brutal out here
