Casanova
- By:
- Carol Ann Duffy and Told By An Idiot
- Composer:
- Ian Johnstone
- Management:
- West Yorkshire Playhouse, Told By An Idiot and Lyric Hammersmith
- Cast:
- Hayley Carmichael, Richard Clews, Johannes Flaschberger, Martin Hyder, Catherine Marmier, Carolina Valdes, Tonin Zefi
- Director:
- Paul Hunter
- Design:
- Naomi Wilkinson
- Sound:
- Andrew Meadows
- Lighting:
- Colin Grenfell
- Choreography:
- Bernadette Iglich
Production information can change over the run of the show.
Casanova - the serial philanderer, fugitive, libertine and adventurer - in this retelling becomes a woman. Told by an Idiot and poet Carol Ann Duffy have sought to create an alternative history of the colourful rogue's life, swapping gender, as director Paul Hunter says, "to see what happens". The sad answer is, not much. The production bears the stamp of Told by an Idiot's distinctive style - heightened theatricality and bold physicality - along with Duffy's literary flair, but at its heart it lacks the driving force necessary to sustain interest... November 13, 2007
This Casanova is a woman but please don't think of Moll Flanders or Fanny Hill. She is alert to the attractions of the opposite sex and she beds them just as a man would bed a woman. Her libido and sexual knowledge are universally admired... September 13, 2007
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