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Stefano
- March 14, 2020
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No CommentsOne of the central characters of ‘Casanova in Paris’ is the monk Stefano. He is based upon a real person with whom Casanova had a short stormy acquaintance with as he travelled from Ancona to Rome. While coarse, lazy and ill-educated, nonetheless, Stefano rescued Casanova from a number of difficult situations. Here Casanova describes their -
Hide and seek
- August 18, 2018
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- Category: Behind the Scenes
Much of the narrative of ‘Casanova in Paris: The Shadows of the King’ revolves around the machinations of two of Louis XV’s spymasters and these final pages of a sequence in which Gabrielle arranges a meeting with Casanova highlights pretty well the theme of hiding, seeking (and revealing) information. The meeting is secret. Gabrielle -
In the wood
- May 23, 2018
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Two thirds of the way through chapter 4 (‘Place de Fleurs’) we created a sequence where Stefano meets Casanova in a wood. Having painted an unsympathetic picture of Stefano’s personality in chapter 2 (‘Stefano, Marie and Giuseppe’) and earlier in chapter 4, it was now time to shift the balance of the audience’s sympathy
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