Fine Arts
Don Juan Project: A Lecture-Performance
Location
Alma Thomas Fine Arts CenterDate & Time
7:30pm CDT April 21, 2017Contact
7:30pm CDT April 21, 2017
Alma Thomas Fine Arts Center
“Don Juan Project: A Lecture-Performance”
Devised by Sergio Costola and Matthew Murphy
Lyrics by Lorenzo da Ponte
Music by Jason Hoogerhyde
Seductive and appalling, comic and captivating, Don Juan is one of the most ambiguous figures in Western literature. What attracts women to him? What makes Don Juan chase and run? What is he looking for? What makes so many men imagine, desire, and behave as if they were him? A collaboration between the Theatre and Music Departments, The Don Juan Project offers an investigation of the myth of Don Juan and its many varied interpretations beginning with its inception in the mind of the 17th century Spanish monk Tirso de Molina and following it through the work of many great writers and artists—Molière, Mozart, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Stendhal, Søren Kierkegaard, George Bernard Shaw, Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva, and Slavoj Žižek among others.
April 21 - 23, 2016
7:30pm | Friday and Saturday
3pm | Sunday
Alma Thomas Theater
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