If… Or one more mystification about – love…love and sentimental Don Juan
premiere - 11.04.2017 - 15.45Director - Zurab KandelakiSound - Bako KhvichiaMusic - Zurab nadareishviliCast: Zurab Kipshidze, Nineli Chankvetadze, Levan Berikashvili, Andria Vachridze. If… Or one more mystification about – love…love and
sentimental Don Juan
NARRATOR:
If…
mini radio play with long title and very, very naïve finale, or one more
mystification about – love… love and sentimental Don Juan, yes - sentimental
Don Juan!
Do you believe it? We will try. Magic of
Stanislavsky’s system will help us, if…
So, imagine
what would happen if, Don Juan meet Carmen.
Don Juan is sitting in the pub and drinking wine, here
is also He’s faithful servant Leporello.
DON JUAN: Do you know why I come to this tavern?
LEPORELLO: No, master!
DON JUAN: It was in this tavern that I first saw her!
Here, I sat down, where I’m sitting now. Just as the waiter broght me wine, she
came in!… She! Even now I see her, even now I hear her (singing: CARMEN’S SONG IS
HEARD) Do you Hear, Leporello?
LEPORELLO: No, I don’t hear anything
DON JUAN: Oh, if youonly knew how much you miss! She was
wearing a very short, red skirt which could not cover her white torn stockings
and neat laced shoes! Do you hear? She had torn white stockings on! She had
removed her mantilla to show her shoulders and the flowers, fixed on her
blouse. She held one flower between her teeth and walked like a thoroughbred
Cordova mare, swaying her thighs.
LEPORELLO: (LAUGHING)
You speak as if you have never seen a woman!
DON JUAN: Oh, you don’t understand anything, Leporello!
There was a passionate and at the same severe expression in her eyes that I had
not seen before or later in any other woman… Ooh! She was walking like a
thoroughbred Cordova mare, swayng her thigs! To my misfortune I wanted to have
a rest from women at that time and I didn’t feel anything like what I’m telling
you about now… Simply I didn’t betray my habit and gazed at her from afar, but evidently
she also felt omething, took out the flower from her mount, smiled at me and
threw that flower at me!.. That is I didn’t get anything else from her, though
while she was there I couldn’t tear my eyes off her … And do you know,
Leporello, why she didn’t pay attention to me?
LEPORELLO: She might have unaware that you were Don
Juan!
DON JUAN: No, my good man, no! Even if she had known,
still she would not have paid attention to me! Do you know, why? At that time
she was in love with another man!.. he was former corporal or a soldier, that
smuggler, that uncouth Basque – Don Jose!.. I realized it all later when one
fine day I saw her flower in my book of Geometry. I don’t know why I kept it.
It musthave been fate! It was at the sight of this withered flower that a
feeling woke up in me, the feeling of real love!..
LEPORELLO: My God, again a flower. What does this flower
do – a flower to Don Jose, a flower to Wscamilio. To some rotten smuggler also
probably a flower! A flower, flower, flower!
DON JUAN: Leporello!!!
NARRATOR:
Imagination
on how Don Juan planed to kill the bull like Eskamilio.
DON JUAN: (SINGS) “Toreador! Toreador!” What comes next,
Leporello? Though no, first roar a bull!!! (LEPORELLO RO ROARS) Toro! Toro!
That’s good, I a, listening!
LEPORELLO: I haven’t told you all… Thr gypsies told
fortune by cards and Carmen…
DON JUAN: Carmen is beautiful, she is the embodiment of
free love! (CONTINUES SINGING) and love is expecting you, love is expecting
you.
LEPORELLO: Carmen looked at the card and said – First
I’ll die and then he will!
DON JUAN: Who is that “he”? I or Don Jose?
LEPORELLO: I don’t’ know that… She said Don Jose would
kill her!
DON JUAN: Leporello, if you want to get your reward and
if you don’t want me to get gored, then rush at me like a bull! (LEPORELLO
ROARS HARDER) Good! Toro! Toro! Once more, good! (SINGS) love is expecting you…
LEPORELLO: You are mixing killing a wild bull with
killing man. I saw a dream. I ask you to believe me. On the pedestal of the
Commandor’s monument a bull was standing and when I invited him, he glared at
you with his bloody eyes and rushed towards you!.. It would be better if you
saved Carmen… You might somehow stop…
DON JUAN: No, my dear, if it is fate as you say, I won’t
be able to do anything and even if I follow your advice and stop Carmen by
force, she will never forgive me that!.. She is like a bird, isn’t ahe? So come
on, Leporello! If I die, I’ll die in love.
NARRATOR:
Ah,
fate not pleased that Don Juan enjoyed love with Carmen, but let’s use
that magical If and let them meet each other in other kingdom, with
accompanying sentimental Tango.
TANGO
CARMEN: I wanted to be there, where the sun shone,
where music
dominated, where people
danced...I wanted to have the right of a free
choice...I was a woman.... a free
woman...
DON JUAN: Please take this rose from me. True, it is not
one thousand
and first, but I humbly beg you to fix it near your heart.
CARMEN: Thank you!
DON JUAN: And still …
CARMEN: (SINGS)
NARRATOR:
And
their love continued very long, long time. But, because we have no more time,
we will stop and go directly to the finale, naive finale on what message would
send Don Juan to the mankind if He saw contemporary world.
EXPOSION.
DON JUAN: It is not a way out! (on the background of music) Love and not hatred will save the world!
There is still time!
Love and not hatred…
(THIS TEXT IS REPEATED IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES:ENGLISH, ARABIAN, RUSSIAN,
PERSIAN, GERMAN, FRENCH, LATVIAN, ITALIAN, ETC.)
DON JUAN: Love, love, love and not hatred…
