Don Juan

The Old Globe, San Diego

About the Show

Heavily censored in Moliere’s time, this classic story features the infamous Don Juan, as he defies every warning to change his ways – from abandoning his wife whom he abducted from a convent, to seducing a young peasant girl, to conning his own father. It is not until the supernatural intervenes that the evil seducer even considers a moral turnaround. This vital adaptation embroiders the conventions of French drama and commedia dell’arte, with director Stephen Wadsworth’s exquisite theatrical sensibilities.