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  • Casanova
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    Casanova

    Constance Congdon

    This play is included in the collection:
    • Tales of the Lost Formicans and Other Plays

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    Play Description

    The life of Casanova as told through the scintillating prism of Constance Congdon’s imagination.

    Production Info

    Cast: 13 total (6 female, 7 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 180 minutes)
    Multiple Sets
    Period Costumes
    Categories: Full Length in Collection, The Plays Tags: 18th Century, Historical Figure
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    “Constance Congdon’s retelling of [Casanova’s] life … follows this legendary seducer, now an elderly man, as he journeys back to Paris. He’s haunted by the ghost of one of his discarded mistresses, Therese, and the specter of his youthful, more sensitive self. Congdon strips away romantic notions to show the emotional toll of Casanova’s actions in this lushly realized but very adult production … Congdon has constructed a hallucinatory dream of an old man seeing his life pass before him, momentarily waking into the present world of pain that may be part fantasy as well … Congdon questions the very foundations of the Age of Enlightenment … [and] provocatively deconstructs a myth while restructuring a historical view of sexual politics.” —Jana J Monji, The Los Angeles Times

    Author(s)

    • Constance Congdon

      Constance Congdon has been called "one of the best playwrights our country and our language has ever produced" by playwright Tony Kushner in Kushner's introduction to her collection TALES OF THE LOST FORMICANS AND OTHER PLAYS. In addition to TALES OF THE LOST FORMICANS, which has had more than 200 productions worldwide, Congdon's plays include: CASANOVA, DOG OPERA, NO MERCY, LOSING FATHER'S BODY, LIPS and NATIVE AMERICAN. PARADISE STREET, was produced in Los Angeles and Amherst. Three commissions from the American Conservatory Theater: A MOTHER, starring Olympia Dukakis, a new verse version of THE MISANTHROPE, and a new adaptation of THE IMAGINARY INVALID, were all produced by ACT. Also at ACT: MOONTEL SIX, a commission by the ACT Young Conservatory and subsequently performed at London's National Theatre, followed by another production of the two-act version at San Francisco's ZEUM. THE AUTOMATA PIETÀ, another YC commission, received its world premiere at San Francisco's Magic Theatre in 2002; NIGHTINGALES went to the Theatre Royale Bath's Youth Theatre. Congdon's NO MERCY, and its companion piece, ONE DAY EARLIER, were part of the 2000 season devoted to Congdon at the Profile Theatre. She has written a number of opera libretti and seven plays for the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis. THE CHILDREN OF THE ELVI, Congdon's epic and NOT suitable for children, play received its premiere at the Key City Public Theater in 2007. Congdon's plays have been produced throughout the world, including Cairo, Tokyo and Berlin. Her new verse version of TARTUFFE is in a single-volume Norton Critical edition and in the Norton Anthology of Drama. In 2013, Congdon was the Honored Playwright at the GPTC and had a fully-staged workshop of her play about the water crisis in the West, TAKE ME TO THE RIVER. Her recent play HAIR OF THE DOG is about Shakespeare and Marlowe. Her most recent play, ENEMY SKY, is about drones, Islamaphobia, and late-in-life love. Congdon has received three NEA grants, two Rockefeller grants (one for Bellagio), an Albert Sloan grants for TAKE ME TO THE RIVER, The Berilla Kerr Award, Helen Merrill Award, The Albert Weissberger Award, New York Newsday's Oppenheimer Award for Best New Play in NYC, New England Theater Conference Award for Distinguished Service to the Theater (2004), two Great Plains Theater Conference Awards, one for Distinguished Service to the Theater and the other as the 2013 Honored Playwright. She is an alumnus of New Dramatists, The Playwright's Center of Minneapolis, and a current member of The Dramatists Guild and PEN. Congdon has taught playwriting at the Yale School of Drama, but her home is as playwright-in-residence at Amherst College where she has taught playwriting for 25 years. Her work is published by Norton, TCG, Inc, but mostly by Broadway Play Publishing.

    Book Information

    Publisher TCG
    Publication Date 6/1/1994
    Pages 314
    ISBN 9781559360845

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    Originally produced by the Public Theater, New York City

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    Casanova is produced
    by special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NYC
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