Comedy in two parts by Molière
Translation: Alexandru Kiriţescu

Artistic director: Radu Nichifor
Scenography: Vioara Bara
Set design assistant: Marinela Asăvoaie
Soundtrack: Florian Chelu, Mircea László Horváth
Choreography: Victoria Bucun
Premiere date: February 2002

Adopting the formula of "theater within a theater", the Oradea show is a collection of different theatrical styles, borrowing, one after another, elements from Greek tragedy, commedia dell'arte, popular theater, Elizabethan and French classicism, Asian and Chekhovian theater. Through these different eras and spaces, the story of the libertine seducer Dom Juan is woven, who sees beauty everywhere and does not want to do injustice to women by loving only one of them. Dona Elvira, Charlotte and Mathurine are just a few of the long line of women who believed in the sincerity of the charming Dom Juan's vows of love.

The cheerful, youthful tone of the beginning fades throughout the play, to give way to the strange, cynical and, in the end, even tragic. Act III presents the meeting between Dom Juan and a poor man who has withdrawn into the wilderness of the forest to pray. Dom Juan does not hesitate to address a challenge to the divinity and tries to pervert the poor man, offering him a gold ludovic in exchange for insults. The forest is also the space where Dom Juan's fate seems to change. Elvira's brothers, Dom Alonso and Dom Carlos, seek to avenge the shame experienced by their sister and give the adventurer one day's respite before punishing him with death.

The mixture of realism and the miraculous is particularly felt in Act IV, when, after the episode of the creditor Dimanche, the Statue of the Commander himself appears at Dom Juan's table, whom Dom Juan had mockingly invited to join him. Act V depicts Dom Juan's false repentance, who plays this comedy in front of Dom Alonso, remaining imperturbable, insensitive to all the signs of evil. Moving away from the original text, the Oradea production proposes, in a postmodernist style, a series of possible endings, the most striking of which highlights the probable transformation of Sganarelle into a future Dom Juan. Thus, the myth lives on.

Distribution:

Dom Juan:  Petre Panait
Sganarelle:  Richard Balint
Guzman:  Ileana Iurciuc
Don Carlos:  George Voinese
Don Alonso:  Alexander Rusu
Don Louis:  Marcel Popa
A beggar:  Serban Borda
Pierrot:  Sebastian Wolf
Dom Juan's servants:  Petre Ghimbasan, Andrian Locovei, Igor Lungu
Sunday:  Doru Firte
Harlequin:  Petre Ghimbasan
Dona Elvira:  Mariana Presecan
Charlotte:  Serban Borda
Mathurine:  Sorin Ciofu
The commander:  Dorin Presecan
Death:  Angela Tanko
Mimi:  Serban Borda, Pavel Sarghi
Nuns:  Linda György, Zentania Lupse, Mihaela Gherdan
Elvira's Suite:  Petre Ghimbasan, Andrian Locovei
Aunt Simonette:  Ion Ruscut
Simonetta's grandchildren:  Petre Ghimbasan, Andrian Locovei, Igor Lungu, Mihaela Gherdan, Corina Cernea, Linda György, Zentania Lupse
Don Alonso's Suite:  Petre Ghimbasan, Andrian Locovei, Igor Lungu
Choir:  Simona Nica, Mona Erhan, Corina Cernea, Andrian Locovei, Igor Lungu, Petre Ghimbăşan, Mihaela Gherdan, Linda György, Zentania Lupse
Commander's Suite:  Simona Nica, Mona Erhan, Corina Cernea, Adrian Marian, Adrian Surducan

Technical director: Ofelia Fîrte
Prompter: Iuliana Chelu
Lights: Iosif Balogh, Sorin Precup, László Attila Oláh
Sound: Cristian Segărceanu