Moliere's DON JUAN Continues at the Estates Theatre Through May 14

Moliere's 'Don Juan' will have its premiere at the Estates Theatre on January 28 with a run scheduled through May 14.

Getting the maximum out of life and enjoying oneself regardless of others. Binding oneself to no one and nothing. Acknowledging only the limitations one determines oneself - and then not even those! Oddly enough, our age does not have a monopoly on such an approach to life. Its personification is a type described back in 1630 by Tirso de Molina in Spain and in 1665 by another great playwright - Moliere - in France. Since then, Don Juan has been the theme of numerous adaptations since the struggle he bears within himself is eternal: a struggle between provoking and tempting the order, which is concealed and only recognisable through faith. However, Juan does not possess it and the faith of his servant is too lukewarm to be able to convince him. The black comedy written in prose is a fixed star of the theatre repertoire. Whereas recent productions have interpreted Juan as an iconoclastic intellectual who refuses to contend with the falsity and emptiness of social mores, today the play requires a new interpretation, one that will paradoxically be closer to Moliere's writing about the hedonistic court of Louis XIV.

Director: Jan Nebeský
Adaptation: Daria Ullrichová
Stage design: Jan Štepánek
Costumes: Jana Preková
Music: Miloš Orson Štedron
Dramaturgy: Daria Ullrichová

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