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Convinced that Ann intends to marry their mutual friend, Octavius Robinson (Scott Riley), Jack persists in his wilful blindness until his chauffeur (Stephen Rowe) reveals the real state of affairs to him. Aghast at the thought of becoming her prey, Jack flees to Spain, only to be taken captive in the Sierra Nevada mountains by band of brigands led by an appealingly urbane character called Mendoza (Jeremy Geidt). In the end, the wayward Jack is finally reclaimed by the tenacious Ann, who tracks him down, accompanied by the entire party...
Usually omitted from most staged versions of the play, but included in this production, is the central scene in which Jack dreams that he is in Hell, recast as the famous Don Juan, with Ann as Dona Ana, Ramsden as the stone statue of Ana's father, and Mendoza as the Devil himself. But this Hell is the refuge of people bored by Heaven, such as the Statue; the Devil is an amiable aesthete with a nihilistic view of man's destiny; and Don Juan himself is a man bored by the mindless hedonism of Hell and consumed with...
Reilly shines as Jack/Don Juan, triumphantly maintaining both a flawless upper-middle class British accent and, more importantly, a breathless vitality that makes us understand what attracts Ann to such a unchivalrous, preachy windbag. In the purely sexual sense of the life force, he goes one better than Flanders. who plays up an engaging slyness as the predatory Ann, but falls a little short of projecting the mysterious feminine fascination that captures Jack against his will...
President Linda S. Wilson awarded the $5,000 Captain Jonathan Fay Prize to Ann C. Hwang '97 in a 28 ceremony highlighted by the surprise appearance of Hwang's mother...
...prosecution will turn to Eli Zakaria and Sara Ann Peters to testify that Markhasev was not only near the scene of the crime but also said he was going to "go do a jack." The government's lawyers will thus argue that whoever killed Cosby had robbery in mind and turned the body onto its back, presumably looking for something to steal, since taking the victim's car was no longer a possibility. "Who's gonna steal a car with a flat tire?" asks a prosecutor close to the case. Indeed, both Zakaria and Peters, who were with Markhasev that...