3rd August – 4th September 2010
Tues - Sat @ 7:30pm, Sun @ 5:30pm, Matinees Sat @ 2:30pm
Presented by Black and White Rainbow

The vibrant Black and White Rainbow theatre company continue their run of innovative productions of classic texts, after Time Out No.1 Critic's Choice shows MADNESS IN VALENCIA and THE MISANTHROPE and their first West End transfer, with CYRA NO DE BERGERAC, in the London premiere of the translation by Ranjit Bolt. Lose yourself in Rostand's heroic and romantic tale of swashbuckling suitors and reluctant romantics. Savour the fragrant atmosphere of Cyrano's beguiling, exciting and wildly romantic world, fizzing with their unique blend and sumptuous detail and wit. And obviously a touch of panache...

"There’s almost no end to the whirligig pleasures of this... illustrates just how much enlivening fun can be had with a classic. A rare delight."
— Time Out

Ben Jonson’s glittering domestic comedy revived as part of the White Bear’s Lost
Classics Programme. Updated to the stylish 1930’s in the 1st professional UK adaptation of a little known Elizabethan play. The fabulously wealthy Lady Loadstone holds a dinner party to marry off her young niece Placentia, who possesses a large dowry kept in the tightfisted hands of Sir Moth Interest. A motley assortment of gentlemen dinner guests, motivated by either love or money, and a household of unmanageable servants, results in a comic and complex tangle of misunderstandings, mishaps and marriages!

"This ensemble of actors proved to be a tight and successful unit, a fine example of how Shakespeare's words can be manipulated into new incarnations, a transfer to a small West End Venue would work really well"
- British Theatre Guide (Shakespeare's Women)

"Brilliant in your face theatre""Excellent, superb, the casting, the acting and the use of the limited space"
- Audience Club (Measure for Measure)