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Don Juan will not be bored in Soho
DON JUAN IN SOHO
Donmar Theatre
DON Juan had been around for more than 350 years when Molière somehow skirted around the fierce French censors.
He is a prodigious and insatiable sexual animal who has been filmed, painted, featured in a Mozart opera, Byron even wrote about an epic poem about him and George Bernard Shaw gave him the once over.
Patrick Marber places him in present day Soho. His Juan refuses to go into that dark night reserved for the ungodly. So ho – the call formally used for hunting in those parts – is Don Juan’s constant cry in the pursuit of sex, drugs and any extreme form of debauchery.
Aided and abetted by his manservant Dan (Stephen Wight) who has been at his side since they left their ancestral acres. Wight is one of the highly confident new young actors and a foil for our hero.
This is the setting for his last few days on earth. But perhaps Soho is his hell already. Juan (Rhys Ifans) challenges the hypocrisy and deadening social and political conformity around him.
In one dangerous scene he offers his Rolex to a Muslim beggar if he will blaspheme against Allah. When he refuses Juan gives him the £7,000 timepiece for his demonstration of honesty.
In an hour and 45 minutes he runs a sexual marathon. In an A&E waiting room he chats up a distraught young woman whose future husband is dying in an adjoining ward, a victim of an accident caused by Juan’s zeal. His acts of remorse and recrimination for his landowning father (David Ryall) benefits from the depths of his deceits.
Don Juan may not disturb your dormant moral conscience but he will pull you into his challenging world where the battle cry is no surrender – he will not be bored.
Until Feb 10
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