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Directed by MTC Associate Director Peter Evans, the cast features Craig Annis (The Glass Soldier), Green Room-nominee Angus Cerini, Logie-nominee Daniel Frederiksen, Katie-Jean Harding (MTC Explorations), Bob Hornery (Entertaining Mr Sloane), Kate Jenkinson (The Wedge), Bert Labonte (The Madwoman of Chaillot), Helpmann & Green Room-winner Christen O’Leary, Green Room-winner James Saunders, and Logie-winner Dan Wyllie as Don Juan - the infamous, amoral hedonist at loose in a society entranced by sensation.
The farcical, tragic, anarchic Don Juan of Molière’s play and Mozart’s opera is the inspiration for Patrick Marber's new work, in which the action of the original is relocated to present day Soho, London: swank new hotels and festering old clip joints, crackheads in alleys and cokeheads in clubs. The destitute, the delirious, the broken and the brazen, the hustlers and hoorays, the media movers and merciless whores - all packed in to one seething square mile.
DON JUAN IN SOHO was commissioned by and first presented at London’s Donmar Warehouse in November 2006. Marber’s other credits include the plays After Miss Julie, Dealer’s Choice (MTC 1996), Closer (MTC 1998) and Howard Katz; and the screenplays for Closer, and Notes on a Scandal (for which he received an Academy Award nomination).
The creative team for DON JUAN IN SOHO includes Fiona Crombie (set & costume designer), Matt Scott (lighting designer) and David Franzke (composer).
Melbourne Theatre Company presents
DON JUAN IN SOHO
by Patrick Marber
Venue: Arts Centre Fairfax Studio | 100 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne
Previews: From Friday 4 January
Dates: Wednesday 9 January until 16 February
Performance Schedule: Mon & Tue 6.30pm (7 & 8 Jan 8pm), Wed 1pm & 8pm (no mat 9 Jan), Thu & Fri 8pm, Sat 4pm & 8.30pm (5 Jan 2 & 8pm)
Tickets: $16 - $75.30
Bookings: Ticketmaster 1300 723 038 or www.mtc.com.au
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