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  • Empathy

    • July 11, 2018
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    To engage an audience, it’s important that creators help them to relate to the characters in a narrative (fictional or non-fictional) and to generate some sort of emotional attachment. The world of ‘Casanova in Paris’ is over two and half centuries in the past, a radically different place to the one we inhabit today, but
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  • Bechard and the Southerner

    • June 23, 2018
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    This is our evil bro pairing – the boss (Bechard) and his right-hand (the Southerner).  It’s a standard enough combination but in our case the right-hand has a degree of independence which is atypical.  The Southerner, after all, is a boss in his own right.  His relationship with Bechard is purely a commercial one.  He
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  • Marquise d’ Urfé

    • June 6, 2018
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    The Marquise d’Urfé is based upon a real historical figure who we have dramatically reimagined.  D’Urfé was the richest woman in France by dint of her marriage to an immensely rich nobleman who died when she was only 29 (there were, of course, the inevitable rumours that she’d bumped him off).  She was a highly
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