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The rich Venetian Volpone, aided by his servant, Mosca, feigns a fatal illness to increase his hoard of wealth
by fooling others into bringing him gifts in the hope that they will be made his heir. Then he decides he must
seduce the young wife of one of his victims, and plots develop that lead to a public court case that eventually
destroys them all.
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The setting for this production was an attempt to suggest the Venice of the seventeenth century with the symbolic
lion, a gold commedia del’arte statue and various drapes for the interior scenes. The costumes were of the period
when the play was written, with rich, dark colours for all the scheming characters and white and gold for the
innocent victims of their plots.
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