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Casanova

A beautifully staged play with Pip Utton’s script and spoken word complemented by Marguerite Chaigne’s evocative contemporary dance.

Pip created a Casanova nearing the end of his life, living in Bohemia as a librarian, writing his memoirs and dreaming of the women he has loved and left and the ones who had broken his heart!

Pip developed his character, warts and all; from first his conquests in a Venice priest’s household to his romps across 1750’s Europe as his name became synonymous with ‘womaniser’. Along the way Pip’s Casanova met royalty, popes, cardinals and contemporaries such as Voltaire, Goethe and Mozart. Fame, fortune, prison, exile followed him through his many careers; lawyer, clergyman, military officer, violinist, con man, pimp, gourmand, dancer, businessman, diplomat, spy, politician, medic, mathematician, social philosopher, cabalist, playwright and writer! At the same time finding the energy to seduce half the women in Europe!!

Pip’s stories were graphic, funny, touching and thought provoking and Marguerite provided the perfect foil interpreting six of his most famous and memorable conquests with music and dance.

Many thanks to everyone who supported Casanova, we had a great turn out on the night.

Sally Scott