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Cyrano de Bergerac

Scene 1 · The Theatre Audience

Summary

As the audience gathers, the theatre fills with fencing, gambling, flirting, drinking and mischief. Pages plan pranks, pickpockets train recruits, and nobles worry about being noticed. This lively, disorderly crowd creates a comic picture of theatre before “the play” begins.

Key Events

  1. Theatre-goers enter early and claim free access, while gentlemen fence, footmen gamble, guards flirt, and other visitors picnic or drink before the performance begins.
  2. Pages, pickpockets, and gamblers turn the theatre into a lively, disorderly space as they plan pranks, pepper the galleries with peas, and practise stealing from spectators.
  3. Theatre Audience members gather as the chandeliers are lit, while nobles complain about arriving too early and the bourgeois family discusses the play Clorise.
  4. Lignière enters the pit with Christian de Neuvillette, who appears preoccupied and repeatedly looks towards the theatre boxes.

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