Levi Brown and More Join the Cast of RSC's CYRANO DE BERGERAC at Noël Coward Theatre

The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced further casting for the West End transfer of Cyrano de Bergerac, running at the Noël Coward Theatre, a Delfont Mackintosh Theatre, from 13 June – 5 September.  Director Simon Evans (Staged, BBC), co-adapts with Debris Stevenson (My Brother's a Genius), bringing new life to Edmond Rostand's lyrical tale of love and lies, longing and disguise.  The production played to packed houses at the RSC in Stratford-upon-Avon last year. 

As previously announced Olivier Award-winning actor Adrian Lester (Company, Donmar Warehouse/ West End; Othello, National Theatre; Hustle, BBC) will reprise his performance as Cyrano alongside Susannah Fielding (This Time with Alan Partridge, BBC; The Merchant of Venice, RSC; A Midsummer Night's Dream, Bridge Theatre) as Roxane.

Levi Brown will join them returning in the role of Christian. Levi played the leading role in Stephen Knight's drama This Town on BBC 1, for which he was nominated for Best Breakthrough Performance at both the Edinburgh TV Awards and Royal Television Society Awards.  He is currently filming the new series of Line of Duty for BBC1.  Other screen credits include Silo on Apple TV and Girl Taken on Paramount+. Previously on stage he has performed alongside Ralph Fiennes in Macbeth (UK/global tour).

Also returning to their roles are Joseph Christain as Edmond, Sunny Chung as Sister Claire/Madame Jodolet, Philip Cumbus as Le Bret, Greer Dale-Foulkes as Abigail, Rachel Dawson as Ann-Sofie, Oliver Grant as Jean, Scott Handy as Comte de Guiche, David Mildon as Jodolet/Carbon, Matt Mordak as Valvert/Pierre, Daniel Norford as Louis, Chris Nayak as Monfleury/Bernard, Christian Patterson as Ragueneau and Josh Sneesby as Raphael.  Robert Jackson joins the cast as Arnauld alongside Taiva Hove, Joshua Maduike and Elim Mapira who will share the role of Small Boy.

Poet, soldier and philosopher. Cyrano de Bergerac burns with brilliance. He's fiercely funny and urgently romantic – but behind the veil of wit is one large problem: his nose. 

Haunted by doubts and too proud to beg, he watches from the shadows as Roxane – bold, beautiful and seemingly unreachable – falls for another man, Christian. But this handsome, tongue-tied young suitor knows his only hope of charming Roxane is to seduce her with words. And only one person can help… 

Biographies

Adrian Lester's theatre credits include: Henry V, Othello (National Theatre; Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actor), Company (Donmar Warehouse/West End; Olivier Award for Best Actor), As You Like It (Cheek by Jowl), Red Velvet (London and New York; Critics' Circle Best Actor Award), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and The Lehman Trilogy (Broadway; Tony Award nomination for Best Actor). He is soon to appear in TV drama PONIES (Sky TV) and new movie Mutiny (on general release August 2026).  Other television credits include: Sandman, Hustle, Undeclared War, Undercover, Life, Trauma, Trigger Point and London Spy.  Film credits include: Primary Colors, The Day After Tomorrow, As You Like It, Dust and Mary, Queen of Scots.

Susannah Fielding's previous RSC credits include The Merchant of Venice (as Portia opposite Patrick Stewart's Shylock).  Other theatre credits include: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Bridge Theatre), The Country Wife, (Chichester Festival Theatre),The Crossing Plays (Royal Court), Bull (Young Vic), An Enemy of the People (Sheffield Crucible), The Merchant of Venice, American Psycho – The Musical (Almeida), The Beaux Stratagem, Much Ado About Nothing, The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other, Philistines and The Rose Tattoo (National Theatre). Television credits include: Here We Go, The Cleaner, Who is Erin Carter?, This Time with Alan Partridge, Life, Black Mirror and The Cockfields. Susannah won the Ian Charleson Award in 2014 for her portrayal of Portia in The Merchant of Venice (Almeida).

Simon Evans' directing credits include: Inside No. 9: Stage/Fright (Wyndham's Theatre/tour), A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Killer Joe (Trafalgar Studios), The Dazzle, Bug (Found111), Alligators (Hampstead) and St Nicholas and The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Donmar Warehouse). Simon also wrote, directed, co-created and starred in the RTS, Radio Times, New York Festival and Comedy-Award winning Staged (BBC1).

Debris Stevenson is a playwright, Grime-poet and multi-disciplinary artist. Her works as a playwright include: Poet in Da Corner (Royal Court) and My Brother's a Genius (Theatre Centre, Sheffield Theatres, National Youth Theatre). Debris founded The Mouthy Poets working with thousands of young writers across the world to bring communities together through poetry.