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Don Juan in Nirvana
is a fantasia, harnessing the energies of music, visual art, fight choreography, and text in the service of a radical updating of the Don Juan story by way of Moliere, Carlos Castaneda, and Frederico Fellini. It is NPL’s 8 ½. It combines the well-known womanizer with a major American political figure into a hysterical extravaganza of sex, religion, and the search for “apocalyptic certainty”. Mysterious spiritual chicanery, inexplicable transformations, and ecstatic and troubled seductions seethe in a soundscape harkening back to the charm and grandeur of Mozart’s Don Giovanni.
Don Juan in Nirvana premiered as a "Spotlight Production" at the Philadelphia LiveArts Festival in the fall of 2004. It was performed in the famous National Building in Old City.
REVIEWS:
"New Paradise Laboratories' Don Juan in Nirvana is a sensational work of art. It's exceptional, extremely interesting, highlights scandalous and lurid events, and manipulates sensory impressions. But if Don Juan didn't do all these things, it wouldn't be a production by New Paradise, a company so gifted and daring that its productions often leave theatergoers awestruck, baffled and infuriated." The Philadelphia Weekly
"With sexually tense wrassling and scalding music (Nirvana’s metal tangle, soft cocktail standards), Whit MacLaughlin and his dashing NPL went about their usual business of daring irrationality and jump-cut aestheticism...Their best work." The Philadelphia City Paper
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