Sport For Jove Theatre Company – 2013/2014 Outdoor Theatre Season Cast Announcement

Sydney, Australia, October 27, 2013 --(PR.com)-- Celebrating their 5th year as a theatre company, and Shakespeare’s 450th birthday in 2014, the Sport For Jove Theatre Company announces the cast for their 2 shows Cyrano de Bergerac and Much Ado About Nothing for their 2013/2014 Outdoor Festival Season.

Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand, newly adapted and directed by Damien Ryan… starring,

Barry French playing Montfleury / Carbon de Castel Jaloux / Chef / 4th Poet
Bernadette Ryan playing Lise / Jodelet
Christopher Stalley playing Pickpocket / Actor / Chef / Poet / 4th Cadet
Christopher Tomkinson playing Bellerose / Musketeer / Capuchin / Sentinel Cadet
Damien Strouthos playing Lignere / Chef / Poet / 2nd Cadet
Francesca Savige playing A Marquise / Chef / 3rd Poet / Sister Claire
James Lugton playing Comte De Guiche / Actor / Chef / Poet
John Turnbull playing Rageneau
Julian Garner playing Le Bret / Chef / 2nd Poet
Lizzie Schebesta playing Madeleine Robin (Roxane)
Madeleine Jones playing Orange-Girl / Chef / Poet / Page / Sister Martha
Robert Jago playing Patron / An Actor / 1st Poet / 3rd Cadet
Scott Sheridan playing Christian de Neuvillette / Chef / Poet
Tim Walter playing Valvert / Actor / Chef / Poet / 1st Cadet
Vanessa Downing playing Duenna / Mother Marguerite
Yalin Ozucelik playing Cyrano de Bergerac

Much Ado About Nothing, by William Shakespeare, Directed by Adam Cook…. starring,

Barry French playing Friar / Verges
Christopher Stalley playing Claudio
Damien Strouthos playing Balthazar / Watch
Francesca Savige playing Margaret
James Lugton playing Dogberry
John Turnbull playing Leonato / Watch
Julian Garner playing Don John
Lizzie Schebesta playing Conrad
Madeleine Jones playing Hero
Matilda Ridgway playing Beatrice
Robert Jago playing Don Pedro
Scott Sheridan playing Borachio
Tim Walter playing Benedick
Vanessa Downing playing Innogen

The Outdoor Festival Season will be touring to…
Bella Vista Farms in Baulkham Hills (December 7th – December 30th)
Norman Lindsay Gallery in Faulconbridge (January 4th and 5th)
Everglades Garden in Leura (January 11th – January 26th)

Sport For Jove’s outdoor summer festival season in December 2013/January 2014…features two of the world’s original and most finely crafted romantic comedies. A new adaptation of the French masterpiece, Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac, written and directed by Damien Ryan - the tale of the beautiful Roxane and the man who would love her, but for his outrageous nose – the play that brought the word "panache" into the English language. Cyrano will play in rep with Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing.

These are two plays with powerful symmetries – stories of our fears of failing in the game of love, and the barriers of wit and prickliness we put up to mask our loneliness and vulnerability; two stories of daring career soldiers who lack the simple courage to express their feelings to a woman; stories of women too witty, sophisticated and intelligent to be easily wooed; and stories that inspire our respect for what it is to be an individual, something a little different from the crowd.