I found Jamie Lloyd’s production of Cyrano de Bergerac at Brooklyn Academy of Music both exhilarating and exhausting. It clocked in at nearly three hours and I suspect the text at a normal conversational speed might have run closer to four. Jamie Lloyd is especially known for his bare-bones productions of Pinter (one of which I saw in London several years ago), and this production was similarly bare bones—not as obvious a choice for staging Rostand as it is for Pinter.
