Don Juan

Performed at Gallaudet University's Elstad Auditorium
September 12th - October 6th, 2013

*Helen Hayes Awards Nominated for The Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play or Musical*

L’amour the merrier, as Molière’s legendary lover wears a new mask!

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Molière (1622-1673) was both a father of French national drama and a dramatist in the Italian tradition of Commedia dell’Arte. He literally shared a stage with Paris’s finest Commedia troupe and “borrowed” many of their plots, characters, and conventions in creating his own plays. He even modeled his famous servant Sganarelle (a part he played himself) on the legendary character Scaramouche created by the Italian comic actor Tiberio Fiorilli. For Season Five, Faction of Fools is excited to produce our first comedy by Molière, Don Juan, freely adapted and directed by two-time Helen Hayes nominee Matthew R. Wilson and featuring local favorite Sun King Davis in the title role. This hilarious send up of high culture is set in a protean art museum outfitted with ever-changing paintings and ambulatory statues. Multi-talented theatre artist Klyph Stanford designs the set, lighting, and projections to create these amazing effects!

Based on the play by: Molière

Freely Adapted and Directed by: Matthew R. Wilson

Stage Manager: Laura Cividanes
Assistant Stage Manager & Wardrobe Supervisor: Kathryn Dooley
Producer: Sarah Conte

Starring: Sun King Davis, Bess Kaye, Charlie Retzlaff, Matthew Taylor Strote, and Hannah Day Sweet

Scenic, Lighting, and Projections Design: Klyph Stanford, Technical Directors: Daniel Flint and Jacob Fisher, Costume Design: Denise Umland, Sound Design & Music Composition: Neil McFadden, Properties Design: Ellen Houseknecht, Mask Design: Aaron Cromie, Production Photography: C. Stanley Photography

Running time: approx 2 hrs with one intermission; Appropriate for ages 12 and up.

“high-minded low comedy” says The Washington Post,
“gleeful, nose-thumbing fun”
Read the full review, HERE!

DCMTA calls Don Juan “immensely inventive”and “So silly yet so smart.”
Read the full review, HERE!

“Old fashioned chivalry, trickery and plain ol' fool-ery at it's best” raves CiaoDC,
“brace yourself for the ride of your life”
Read the full review, HERE!

Check out THIS feature on Don Juan by the Washington City Paper!

Our own Don Juan writes about his journey in this new post on DC Metro Theater Arts.
Check it out, HERE.