Word: donning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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All this, of course, takes us far from the lecherous nobleman of Mozart and da Ponte, with his thousand and three mistresses. (One suspects that the Don Juan story figures in the play less as its actual inspiration than as a unifying device, a splendid resource for theatrical and intellectual...
Don Juan is a man who, though gifted enough to be exceptionally capable of distinguishing between good and evil, follows his own instincts without regard to the common, statute, or canon law; and therefore, whilst gaining the ardent sympathy of our rebellious instincts (which are flattered by the brilliancies with...
In a word, according to Shaw, Don Juan is a proto-revolutionary, and so his Shavian descendant John Tanner is portrayed as a social agitator and the author of The Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion, which Shaw thoughtfully appends to the published edition of the play. In his own...
Awake and dreaming, Tanner-Don Juan is one of the greatest comic roles in the modern theatre. Its difficulty is compounded by the fact that though Tanner is the hero of the play and Don Juan its most eloquent spokesman, both of them, Tanner especially, serve also as satiric butts...
Barry Morse plays Tanner at Wellesley with all the elegant arts of a skilled high-comic actor. It is a brilliant, slick performance, full of gaiety and verve and a fast-talking grace reminiscent of Noel Coward. Mr. Morse is admirable as the quarry of the love-chase, the baffled...