Alternate Title BAM French Theater: Don Juan
Production Language French
Country of Origin France
Description In a very special engagement, the Comédie-Française, France's oldest and most renowned theater company, comes to Brooklyn for its first BAM appearance in sixteen years. The famed Paris-based troupe will present two of its most hihgly acclaimed productions, Molière's 1665 classic Don Juan, directed by Jacques Lasalle; and Marivaux's 1723 comedy, The Inconstant Lovers, under the direction of Jean-Pierre Miquel. Known for its grand, lavish stagings and scrupulous attention to costuming and historical detail, the 315-year-old Comédie-Française devotes itself to preserving the vitallity and relevance of the great theatrical works of the past, and as such offers an incomparable, indispensible theater-going experience.
Lassalle's Don Juan was first staged in Paris in 1993 and revived for a seven week run in 1995. The director brings his own acerbic vision to Molière's morality tale, plumbing the psychological depths of the infamous libertine, and exploring the light and dark facets of his charming and manipulative personality. Shortly after Don Juan opened, notoriously tough Parisian critics called the work "the ultimate compliment to the charm of the theater," created by "an artistic team in perfect harmony." Wrote one reviewer "Director Jacques Lasalle and his scene painter Rudy Sabounghi inspire the most extraordinary adventure."
Identifier 1996s.01008
