Teatro Dallas begins Don Juan the Vampire this weekend

by PegNews wire

Teatro Dallas presents their annual Days of the Dead production with this year’s feature Don Juan the Vampire.

Adapted and directed by Cora Cardona, it is a love, lust and bloody adaptation based on Don Juan Tenorio by Spanish playwright José Zorrilla. The play will be presented in English with Spanish verse.

Celebrate Days of the Dead as it has been celebrated in Mexico since the mid 1800’s. Follow the vampire Don Juan as he climbs cloisters seducing women and laughing at the law and the religious values of society.

Zorrilla opened his famous Don Juan Tenorio in 1844 in Mexico City but placed the story in 16th century Seville. Teatro Dallas's production of Don Juan the Vampire, however, will take place in 1950's Seville, with a swirl of punk rock from the eighties- after all the play opens during a masquerade. This show is packed with action and taps into the personality of the womanizer Don Juan, who in spite of his evil and vampiric ways, surrenders to the love of Doña Inés,

As in the 19th century, women in the 1950s were secondary to the honor of the family; the moral values and attitudes of both time periods created a generation of rebellious youth without a cause. But regardless of the time period love conquers all if in a bit of a macabre way! Don't miss this timeless, romantic love story that will entertain from beginning to end.

The show will run October 10 - November 1 with performances Thursdays - Saturdays at 8:15 p.m. and Sundays at 3:00 p.m. On November 2nd there will be a special performance with reception for the Day of the Dead and tickets for this performance are $25. Tickets can be purchased online.

Posted by Shawn