Molière: DON JUAN

Don Juan, as understood by Molière, is more of an atheist than a debauchee; he flatters the women he seduces, only to abandon them in the end... But these are not his biggest misdeeds: he ridicules fatherhood, plays with marriage, defies God’s wrath, invites the statues of his victims to dinner, mocks the hell, laughs at debt and the citizen, and as the utmost outrage wears clergyman’s dress over his sumptuous tailcoat.

Don Juan’s character, glorified by a number of great artists, is nowadays interpreted in a broader, more humane and poetic way; to some extent, he has become a Faust of love, symbolizing a yearning for eternal sensuality...

We prefer him as a rebellious Titan, protesting even when tormented in the fires of hell, than a penitent humble sinner. Don Juan had the right to strive for his ideal and to soothe the unquenchable yearning for love that was tearing him apart.
From the programme booklet

The story of Don Juan is one of the oldest literary motives explored in many works, among which figures the Molière's work, as one of the most original and most important ones. Just as writers tried to give answers to the questions of their times, stagings of Molière's text are trying today. That was the starting point for the director Ana Vukotić, too.
Maja Mrđenović, Pobjeda

The road to hell is paved with – freedom
Don Juan from Podgorica has succeeded in achieving something seemingly so simple yet rarely seen: we are given a classical text cloaked in the spirit of time and allowed to emanate from the stage in the fullness of its meanings, through an imaginative staging without radical interventions.
Matko Botić,Festival Užice