DON JUAN

DON JUAN by Peter Handke

This play lasts 120 minutes and takes us into the mysterious world of Don Juan who arrives at a restaurant within the ruins of the Port Royal de Champs monastery near Paris. Fleeing from an enraged group of motorcyclists, Don Juan shares his incredible experiences from the past week with two chefs.

• It begins with a wedding in Tbilisi last Monday,
• up to the encounter with an intriguing beauty in Damascus on Tuesday,
• then about meeting a group of flamenco dancers in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in Morocco on Wednesday,
• and on Thursday tells of the witch Anitra from the fjord in Bergen,
• while on Friday he met a Moldovan woman from an Amsterdam shop window,
• and ends with a member of the cultural and artistic society Ivo Lola Ribar from Guča on Saturday.

In this story, we experience the scents of traditional French cuisine, white wine, and buckwheat bread with walnuts, intertwined with nuns, Jean Racine, Jansenists and Jesuits, Blaise Pascal, Phaedra, and incest. This work by Peter Handke evokes the original story of Don Juan, illuminating the character from a different perspective where the focus is not on defense, but on the introspective defense of the persecuted and those seeking asylum "among reality and dreaming."