The first act is set in a theater in France, where the play La Clorise, starring Montfleury, is to be performed. People begin to arrive and wait for the play to start. Then the drunken poet Ligniere with handsome Christian enters. Christian confesses to Ligniere of his love towards a beautiful lady he sees from afar. He finds out from Ligniere that the beautiful lady is named Roxanne and is Cyrano de Bergerac's cousin. Christian …showed first 75 words of 3887 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3887 total…the end of the play because of the way the events shifted so quickly into a darker and deeper setting. It tightened my heart when Cyrano was dishonest for fifteen years and finally drew up enough courage to tell Roxanne the truth. It could have been a painless ending settled long ago if confessing the truth had come out from Cyrano in the beginning. Truth always eventually wins out. It can never be covered up.