Don Juan in Soho: After Moliere

Review One of the foremost dramatic chroniclers of modern British life. Line by line, this is the best written of all Marber's plays. You want to hang around its phrases (how often does that happen in the theatre?): hardly a minute passes without a satirical swipe, a gutsy joke. ― Observer In Patrick Marber's terrific new free adaptation, the play proves savagely funny, disturbingly dark and disgracefully sexy. ― Daily Telegraph Startlingly funny update of Moli�re's portrait of a rake's progress to Hell. Marber is, line for line, as scintillating a wordsmith as you can find. ― Variety Marber's trenchant take on the epic erotomane is brazen with brilliance and goes for broke. ― Independent Marber's vigorous, colourful, demotic dialogue is superbly crafted, a heightened theatrical language that still sounds modern. ― Sunday Times Product Description Inspired by Moli�re's farcical, tragic, anarchic Don Juan (1665), Patrick Marber's Don Juan in Soho transports the action to contemporary London and follows the debauched protagonist's final adventures. Don Juan in Soho premiered at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in December 2006. This edition of the text incorporates revisions made for the play's revival at Wyndham's Theatre, London, in 2017, directed by the author. About the Author Patrick Marber was born in London in 1964. He began his career as a writer in 1986. He co-wrote and appeared in a number of radio and television programmes including The Day Today and Knowing Me, Knowing You and, more recently, BBC R4's Bunk Bed (with Peter Curran). In 1995 his first play Dealer's Choice premiered at the National Theatre in a production he also directed. Since then, he has written and directed plays and screenplays including After Miss Julie, Closer, Howard Katz, Don Juan in Soho, The Red Lion, Three Days in the Country, Hedda Gabler, Notes on a Scandal and Love You More. He has also directed two of Tom Stoppard's plays, a revival of Travesties and the premiere of Leopoldstadt. He lives in London with his wife and their three children.