James McAvoy's Cyrano de Bergerac co-stars 'racially abused' in Glasgow

James McAvoy's co-stars successful Cyrano de Bergerac were racially abused connected a "daily basis" portion the play was connected circuit successful Glasgow, the histrion has claimed.

The star, who was calved successful the city's Drumchapel area, said the harassment experienced by pistillate formed members near him "delighted to leave" his location town.

He told GQ magazine, the acquisition was "horrible" and helium regretted taking the accumulation to Scotland.

The two-week tally astatine Glasgow's Theatre Royal successful March was a sell-out.

McAvoy said that alternatively of a "homecoming", the performances were marred by the "sexually explicit and violent" maltreatment his colleagues experienced beyond the theatre.

"The formed were amazing, it was brilliant," helium said. "But I was truly saddened, to beryllium honorable with you, due to the fact that astir of the women of colour successful the formed got racially abused beauteous overmuch connected a regular ground erstwhile we were there."

He added: "I was conscionable truly saddened. I was perfectly shocked and dismayed and to usage a Scottish word, scunnered.

"We were delighted to get to Brooklyn, and permission Glasgow. It was horrible."

The adaptation of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac had an award-winning tally successful London earlier travelling to Glasgow and past connected to New York.

In Jamie Lloyd's accumulation an ethnically divers formed conversed successful the benignant of a poesy slam oregon rap conflict with a unrecorded beatbox soundtrack.

Regarding the staging successful Glasgow, McAvoy said: "I was going connected signifier each nighttime going, I don't privation america to beryllium here. I brought this formed present and I don't privation to beryllium here."

A spokeswoman for the Theatre Royal said they were "extremely upset" by the incidents which happened elsewhere successful Glasgow metropolis centre.

She added: "Diversity and inclusion stay a precedence for america and we offered due enactment to the institution astatine the time."

It felt similar a unrecorded gig alternatively than a portion of classical theatre.

James McAvoy - backmost connected signifier successful Glasgow for the archetypal clip successful 20 years - has to intermission to let the whooping and cheering to subside earlier delivering his archetypal enactment astatine the Theatre Royal.

The Cyrano de Bergerac accumulation by the Jamie Lloyd institution is simply a stripped backmost mentation of a 19th Century play reinvented galore times - possibly astir memorably by Steve Martin successful the movie Roxanne. No props, nary play costumes, nary mendacious chemoreceptor (Cyrano's acquisition being his poetry, not his looks).

The prima is McAvoy but the 18-strong ensemble springiness the amusement a powerfulness and vigor - taking the mic, and their infinitesimal successful the spotlight to present lines similar a slam poesy event.

"I emotion words, that's all" - says Cyrano, and by the extremity of the amusement James McAvoy convinces the assemblage that words are everything.

It's bittersweet past to opposition that ecstatic welcome, with the verbal maltreatment formed members experienced successful the metropolis outside.

According to the actor, pistillate performers faced racism "on a regular basis" during their clip successful Glasgow.

"I'm perfectly not amazed astatine all," said Afua. "We person this cognition that Scotland is exempt from racism somehow, but it's not."

Most talked of a beingness of mundane racism successful a metropolis which likes to measure itself arsenic affable and welcoming.

Most of america are. But incidents similar this are a reminder that we can't beryllium complacent.

James McAvoy is close to beryllium ashamed, and close to telephone it out.