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Don Juan

Jean Baptiste Poquelin (Molière), Neil Bartlett

Publisher: Oberon Modern Plays

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Summary

"He's a beast I tell you - a real animal" What happens when you've lived only for pleasure, and you finally run out of time? When you've broken every promise, outraged every decency and slept your way through half of Europe - where do you turn as the clock starts to tick towards midnight? Neil Bartlett's new translation brings out all the dark undercurrents of Molière's wickedly black comedy.
Available since: 10/11/2004.

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