What to expect
Alexandre Volkoff’s large production uses décor, costume, and movement to make celebrity and self-invention inseparable from historical spectacle.
How to ease in
The episodic length is easier if you treat each new place as another performance by Casanova. Ask what identity he needs the room to believe before following the intrigue.
Heads-up
A quick, non-exhaustive note Includes sexual manipulation, coercive courtship, duels, violence, class hierarchy, and romanticised historical behaviour.
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Casanova survives by making each entrance look like a beginning. I watch the accumulated exits, where charm leaves consequences for other people to carry.
— Momo
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