Cyrano de Bergerac

Poster design for a French theatre classic

Cyrano de Bergerac is a swordsman, poet and hopeless romantic who is convinced his enormous nose makes him unlovable. Too afraid to court the love of his life himself, he ghostwrites her romance with the handsome but tongue-tied Christian instead. 

For English Theatre Utrecht's production I turned that oversized nose into the poster's actual setting. A mountain range the whole cast climbs, duels and tumbles across. Musketeers, pickpockets, a jealous rival and a baker-poet all crowd onto it.