"Mesmerising... glittering... unforgettable."

 The Times

"I defy anyone not to fall in love with it."

 The Telegraph

"Funny, thrilling and deeply moving."

 WhatsOnStage

"The most breathtakingly exciting show in London right now."

 Evening Standard

"A beloved tale of yearning, beauty, and desire... a weaponless marvel of language."

 The Observer

"“Alive with the love of language... This is not your grand-mère’s Cyrano. Replacing Rostand’s stately 12-syllable alexandrines with jumpier rhythms, its euphemisms with plain speech and its perfect rhymes with ones so slant they serve as italics, Crimp rockets the action to a world drunk on language as it’s actually spoken. It’s also a world in which, as the baker Ragueneau (now a poet, too) predicts, ‘There’s going to be a new force of words’... I spent most of the production’s swift two acts fully engaged in its humor, pathos and fury."

 The New York Times

"A revivifying take on Cyrano. With a whip-smart script by Martin Crimp, the production highlights a cool new vocabulary for Edmond Rostand’s sentimental monument to love."

 The Washington Post

"A pleasure… Adapter Martin Crimp... has, in his sixties, written an absolute banger in his startling adaptation of Rostand."

 Time Out New York

"An alternately joyous and heartrending celebration of language – even the sword fights are rendered with nothing more than pointed words. Every line of dialogue... is either a delight, an arrow, or both, from era-defying comic asides... to a wrenchingly gorgeous profession of love rendered truthfully yet in deception."

 Deadline

"The sexiest, most thrilling production of the season... strips the material down to the essential – the sword by which everyone in its 1640 Paris must live or die: the power of words."

 Theatrely

"Heart-stopping... the program says that the text is a ‘new version’ by Martin Crimp. Yes, well, in the sense that fire can be considered a ‘new version’ of wood."

 Vulture

"This version of the play... is more about Cyrano de Bergerac's first love: language... Crimp updates the language to incorporate more modern poetry, creating a spoken-word rendition set in 1640 that plays with current pop-culture references."

 Entertainment Weekly

"Classics purists will still find the rhyming-couplet poetry of Rostand’s play intact, but Martin Crimp's freewheeling adaptation will also delight the Gen-Z crowd: 19th-century verse gives way to 21st-century spoken-word poetry and rap, including plenty of red-hot roasts."

 New York Theatre Guide