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I still do not hear the show... Try the sound links! ![]() SummaryAct I: Elvira, Goodbye, My love.Act II: Chasing Girls & Chased by Brothers Act III: Invitation of the Dead (intermission) Act IV: Dinner Act V: Hell, Welcome! Questions![]() NotesTwo pages on the play: in PLAYS directory and script.vtheatre.net©2006 Fall: 2007 Spring:
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I like Amadeus (script), but somehow still didn't get to it. I like Salierri and his daring God -- this is what DJ does. But in a light spirit, without asking for anything. Simply -- "show that You exist"?Man & Woman or Man & Women. Maybe: Man -- God -- Woman (see THEMES in script.vtheatre.net) How about: Man + God = Woman...
What is the difference between Playboy and Don Juan?
Sganarelle, sidekick, "Comic" (not "Fool" in Commedia types), Elvira and the girls in act II -- women are not in the center of drama? Or was it her punishment to DJ, her stiry?
Dancing (Spanish). Even at the end; going down to hell -- music, Jipsy Kings, the big party. DJ dances (he is always happy, he is amused by life). Another gift -- the right place after death.
[ Serious Tone: Screen -- upstage center? ]
Dom Juan is God to himself. He is a man who needs no other but what he already wakes up to everyday. Sounds nice doesn't it, the bliss of liking what it is you see in the mirror everymorning. Or is it? This was a blatant element in the story of Eden and the experiences of Adam and Eve in the garden. They were safe and content- kind of like cats. In Milton's presentation of Eden in Paradise Lost, the relationship between ATOM and Eve is one that does not deny their sexual union and the union between them and all God's creation. But there is a tricky side to this story (as there are in all stories of the bible), Eve fall-s-in love with her own reflection when she spies it in the water. But of course Adam comes along and saves her from the fate of Narcissist. This fickleness in love, beauty, and innocence can also be witnessed in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Nights Dream, when Titania awakes with the love juice on her eyes and falls in love with an ass. But my question is, if Dom Juan represents these desires that are both fickle and full of lust, passion, and death is he really innocent? Is he really in bliss in this remake of the Garden where he can do whatever he wants, marry whatever he wants, while denying its creator all along? I am not a religious person and I personally have alot of impatience towards organized religion, but when I put myself into the shoes of Moliere's society and the beliefs of his time he is the reflection in the water of narcissist. We are Narcissist and Dom Juan's reactions are our desires, the desires of the people in his time. A time when divorce was as hard a debate as abortion is today. A time when we were expected to obey and control ourselves while conveying the beauty of our nation. So is this really Dom Juan himself that scares us, or is it what he is revealing that frightens us the most? And how does the actor reveal these things without having himself get in the way? To literally be a God when the very word Omnipotent is something we have a hard enough time explaining, let alone conveying. So if the character himself literally has no boundaries as well as the subject in which he is portraying, than are we just grasping clouds of smoke in search of the tangible? Maybe this is a question that should in the end be left up to God HIMSELF...
by Heather Rae Reichenberg 2003images for set design:
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Don Juan: Hero or anti-hero?
Raw-Renaissance! Before 1600 (the way Moliere sees it).
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3 Sisters, Mikado, 12th Night, The Importance of Being Earnest, Dangerous Liaisons, Don Juan
2006 : Godot