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Don Juan in Soho, Donmar Warehouse, London by Michael Billington

Donmar Warehouse, LondonPatrick Marber is not the first person to give Molière's comedy a makeover. Only two years ago Neil Bartlett transposed the action to a belle-époque hotel. But, while Marber's entertaining version offers a far more radical rewrite, it lacks the subversiveness of Molière's original.Marber's hero, DJ, is a fantastically priapic aristo, cutting a swath through modern Soho. He ditches Elvira, a…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48PM on November 1, 2016

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