Sharpenicity

DON JUAN TENORIO  The World’s Most (In)famous Lover Romance and religion melt together in the poetry of the great Spanish writer José Zorrilla’s take on the iconic character Don Juan.   Don Juan has been the  source of endless fascination to writers who have had  their say on what the fateful ending of the story should be.    But if you think you know Don Juan, the infamous seducer of women from  Mozart’s Don Giovanni and other works,  Zorrilla’s play has a few surprises.     Zorrilla  takes it one step higher as it delves into the theological debate of centuries, and addresses the question—to put it briefly— can a person as despicable and deliberately evil as Don Juan, be saved by grace in his final seconds on earth.   Unlike those other Don Juan stories, with the dramatic moment of the Don consumed by flames of hell, this version has him ascend to the misty realms of heaven’s stair case, with his purest lo...