Casanova (The Scent of a Bunny)

Casanova was born in Venice 300 years ago, in 1725. Our story follows the last few days of his life in Dux, Czech Republic, where we accompanies the old ladies' man.

By this point, our hero has already lived through the great adventures of his eventful life: he’s been a stand-up comedian and a house tutor, a soldier and a theater violinist, a disgraced priest (literally: he fell off the pulpit while drunk), a quack and a sorcerer, womanizer and resident of the Venetian “lead prison” (in short), organizer of the French royal lottery, an illegitimate usurper of a knighthood, a swindler and adventurer, but above all a brilliant mind who composed iambic pentameter even as a child, and at the end of his life left posterity a 4,000-page memoir that also serves as an accurate snapshot of the 18th century.

Our story currently revolves around the completion of this very brief memoir, while also taking the time to read the most piquant details aloud each night to a young maid who is eager to hear them.

Mila Zajic, the maid—who is past her prime but has never known true desire, as men have so far viewed her only as a sexual object or cheap labor —but now, for the first time, she is ignited by a man’s desire, and this changes her life.

And, not incidentally, this turning point also transforms two other men forever: Friedemann Pütz, the court advisor—wounded in both body and soul, with a gruff demeanor—manages to surprise the world-weary adventurer with a story he had never before told to anyone.

And Carlo Angiolini, Casanova’s great-nephew, also becomes part of this immortal tale—something he could never have dreamed of in his previously dull, bourgeois life.

Casanova (The Scent of a Bunny) – a grotesque comedy

Cast:

Giacomo Casanova - Attila Bellus

Carlo Angiolini - Dániel Pálinkás

Friedemann Pütz - László Baj

Mila Zajic - Barbara Szitás

Dancers:

Andrea Tuboly / Dominika Markos

Marcell Bodorkós

Costumes: Borcsa Kiss

Music: Zoltán Hegyi

Assistant Director: Noémi Lengyel

Director: Danielle Dutombé