Theatre review: Cyrano de Bergerac, Tramway, Glasgow

TO WATCH Dominic Hill’s new production of Cyrano de Bergerac in Tramway 1 is in some ways an unsettling experience, like approaching some giant, unruly and strangely glittering feature of the Scottish landscape. Co-produced with the National Theatre of Scotland and the Lyceum in Edinburgh, this is the Citizens’ Company’s first production since it moved house to make way for a three-year rebuilding programme; and in choosing to revive Edwin Morgan’s thrilling 1992 Scots version of Cyrano de Bergerac, Hill and his 14-strong company throw themselves with a passion into not one but two great arenas of Scottish cultural ferment and change – the Tramway space, and Morgan’s mighty text – and emerge slightly bloody, but triumphant.