Previews:
March 18, 2003
Opened:
March 23, 2003
Ended:
April 13, 2003
Country:
USA
State:
New York
City:
New York
Company/Producers:
Theater for a New Audience (Jeffrey Horowitz, art dir; M. Edgar Rosenblum, exec dir)
Theater Type:
off-Broadway
Theater:
Lucille Lortel Theater
Theater Address:
121 Christopher Street
Genre:
Comedy-Drama
Director:
Bartlett Sher
Review:
Byron Jennings was a terminally effete Don Juan in Christopher Hampton's adaptation of Moliere's version of Tirso de Molina's tale. Because this was a Theater-for-a-New-Audience production, the staging and character-interpretations were also resolutely new and trendy. John Simon condemned it roundly, but the show was not without insight or interest. In addition to Jennings, Nicholas Kepros was admirable as the Don's furious father. Best of all, however, was John Christopher Jones as Sganarelle, or Leporello to opera-lovers. Bartlett Sher staged.
Cast:
Byron Jennings (Don Juan), John Christopher Jones (Sganarelle), Sherri Parker Lee, Nicholas Kepros, Liam Craig, Nicole Lowrance, Dan Snook, Price Waldman, Graham Winton, David Wohl, Anne Louise Zachry
Technical:
Casting: Deborah Brown. Set/Lighting: Christopher Akerlind; Costumes: Elizabeth Caitlin Ward; Music: Peter John Still; Vocal Coach: Deborah Hecht; Fight Choreog: J. Steven White.
Miscellaneous:
This review first appeared in NYTheatre-wire.com
Critic:
Glenn Loney
Date Reviewed:
April 2003
