For Tenorman Giorgos Tziouvaras, Don Juan had it all: “He didn’t work, he was rich, he had beauty, charm, he also had hair” as he tells us. And he knows what he’s talking about, as his show “Don Juan Forever” has been presented in many cities in Greece and tonight, Saturday March 2nd, he’s making a stop in Patras, specifically at the Lithographion theater.
An interactive project where the audience actively participates, since several will be asked to play a role.
Don Juan, the greatest heartthrob of all time, the philosophic lover of beauty, the swindler with enormous conquests and ridiculous failures. He is now 423 years old, cursed to eternal life. He takes us on a journey through time, his travels, the famous people he met, with hilariously funny stories and lots of music.
Don Juan confesses his hidden secrets. How is it that everyone sees you as a fraud? As a bastard? Is our society changing over time? Did he ever really fall in love? Which woman killed him?
Tenorman Giorgos Tziouvaras talks about these and many more today on pelop.gr, shortly before he goes on stage at Lithographio.
Why did you choose Don Juan? How many faces of him do we see? And who was it really?
I really liked the legend of Don Juan from the plays I have read, since I was little, and from Mozart’s opera “Don Giovanni”. He has always followed me as a personality because he is also very interesting musically. And with Opera Chaotique, I had put Don Juan in the performances and with comic elements. Now I have been given an opportunity to develop him more, because he also has a philosophical look at the whole thing.
After all, who was, what was Don Juan?
He is a mystery, a mysterious guy. They say it actually existed and that the first writer who wrote it in the 1600s was influenced by it. A guy who tricked young girls into marrying them and in the end was murdered by the fiances and fathers of those girls. He was the son of the viceroy of Seville, a man of great passion, great charm, an atheist but with many thoughts about heaven and religion. Was it a dream or a reality? We do not know!
In the end, did Don Juan love women or himself more?
These probably go together. He really loved women but somehow – like all of us many times – he needed that confirmation for himself. Although he also had self-destructive tendencies. Of course, in my version, in Don Juan Forever, the hero still lives today. He is 423 years old and we follow the course of his life, the people he has met, the curse that the father of a girl put on him to eternal life… We follow this whole course.
Is eternal life a curse?
I think so, although the audience is asked to answer that question in the show! Maybe it’s a curse when it comes to loved ones being lost, this loneliness… And how long do these feelings last? Does touch last over time? Is this a burden? We’ll never know anyway!
What would Don Juan be like today?
Today Don Juan would be in trouble, he should have made tinder, been very involved in Tik Tok to survive.. I don’t know how he could survive today since everything is easier. Back then you couldn’t hook up with a girl without a commitment. And that’s part of the show. It is noted that many philosophers have developed “Don Juanism” in relation to love, care and affection, noting that he was not so bad… Today he would certainly have another form. Maybe I, who deal with this, have a similar issue that I should solve with my psychologist or through the show. Because as it develops this year, this show ends up as a psychotherapy.
What are the audience reactions and what’s the weirdest thing you’ve heard from it?
The audience, those who want to of course, participate in the performance, play various roles. In all the performances I have done so far, the audience responds very warmly. I think, of all the shows I’ve done, it’s the one where they laugh the most! As for the weirdest… I was playing in Giannina and a girl was playing the part of Elvira, who was very hurt by Don Juan… At one point, she was reading “shameless, swindler” etc and there was a note at the end that said “ and sticks a knife in his side”. So she, in her madness, was starting to get into the role, which gives a punch on the shoulder and there was a noise, with the audience going “ooooo”. They all turned together and looked at her boyfriend who was sitting in front…
What is the difficulty and challenge of interacting with the public? With so many different people?
First of all, you don’t know if people will come! So that’s where the stress starts! Of course, from the moment people will come, I feel a certain confidence in you and this has always guided me. It is the certainty that you will make a “click” and everything will go its way. You forget everything for two hours and enter another dimension, a journey and that is my purpose. And I’m very lucky that we almost always get along with the audience.
If you had Don Juan in front of you, having experienced him in your own way, what would you say to him?
I think we would talk a little, although I don’t know how he would treat me! But I think it would be a nice meeting. I might consider it for the show’s sequel!
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