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  • Nature

    • May 8, 2023
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    Over countless generations societies have imbued nature with meaning and significance beyond its physical reality.  Unsurprisingly, therefore, the connotations that can be conveyed by nature is a common device that creators use for enhancing the mood of a piece.  Typical features would include light and dark, evening and morning, shadows, thunder and lightning, storm, the
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  • Foreshadowing

    • March 25, 2023
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    A feature we use a great deal in ‘Casanova in Paris’ is foreshadowing, a way of pointing to future events in a narrative and so shape audience expectations.  These expectations may be very concrete, such as a character stating that something is going to happen, or very nuanced and related to mood.  Foreshadowing can be
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  • Introducing Marquise d’Urfé

    • February 4, 2023
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      A device that we’ve employed several times in ‘Casanova in Paris’ is to have the audience re-evaluate their assessment of a character on the basis of new information.  In the case of Marquise d’Urfé, she had previously been described by Madame de Pompadour as an old woman, besotted with Casanova upon whom she had
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