theultimateheather:

Has there ever been a production of Cyrano de Bergerac where Cyrano is female and everyone else is still their original gender?

I just had the revelation of a lifetime: if you changed Cyrano to be a woman, you would already have the perfect story of a queer woman who suppresses her feelings for her female friend because she’s resigned that her friend will never reciprocate those same emotions. Cyrano just accepts that because of his nose, he’s ugly and doesn’t deserve Roxane’s love, and dammit if that doesn’t speak to the part of me that spent years pining after girls while thinking “I’m a girl, so of course they’ll never love me, why would they?”

Like, I know there’ve been a lot of reboots and retellings that replace characters with women and/or make them gay, but I think this is one that actually works really well with the source material. It’s such a beautiful comic-tragedy that I think could really explore the soul-crushing weight of being closeted.