Is a version of Cyrano de Bergerac for the Royal Shakespeare Company. It is the last word of the play. By panache Cyrano seems to mean a kind of flamboyant grace, an extravagance of gesture which can be expressed as much in defeat as in conquest. Cyrano wins fights and contests of wit, but he is essentially a loser: his ugly great nose ensures that he cannot succeed in love, and his whole story is one of amorous failure.

To follow your chivalric calling

When the Alps and the Pyrenees are falling,

To file your nails when the doomsday trumpets crash:

That’s panache.

Touche