In Residence | Don Juan Comes Back From The War, a play directed by Rehaan Engineer

Written by Ödön Von Horváth, translated by Christopher Hampton.

In "Don Juan Comes Back From The War" (1936), Ödön Von Horváth updates the story of the notorious seducer Don Juan, placing him in the early twentieth-century.

It is 1918, and the Don, recently discharged from the army, is wandering the desolate landscape of Europe in the aftermath of the great war. Everywhere he looks, the world is full of women - to the point where he can almost seem to be the only man left alive. A perfect situation, one would imagine, for someone famous for his endless debaucheries. Except that the Don is now finding his old role hard to play.

Haunted by the memory of a girl he used to know before the war - his former fiancée, whom he cheated on and jilted - he becomes increasingly fixated on finding her once again. But, of course, as he sets out to look for her, he encounters an army of other women along the way. These women - some bemused, some lustful, some newly-empowered, some nursing old grudges - all seem to want something or other from the ageing Don, and all of them, in one way or another, seem to remind him of his lost sweetheart.

Bleakly funny and unflinching in its analysis of romantic illusions, von horváth's text modernises the figure of the legendary philanderer, and a character who intrigued Mozart, Byron, Kierkegaard, Jane Austen, and Bernard Shaw, is re-invented, here, and given a new and surprising life.

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Cast [In order of appearance]

Nisa Shetty

Kyla D’souza

Puja Sarup 

Shubhaavi Choksey

Janhvi Marathe

Purnima Rathod 

Kalki Koechlin 

Kiyomi Mehta 

Uma Katju 

Shivani Vakil Savant 

Priyanka Setia 

Shahnaz Anand

Mallika Singh 

Maya Sarao 

Mansi Multani 

Sukhita Aiyar 

Pavani Mishra 

Prerna Chawla 

Monica P. Mahendru

Faezeh Jalali

Rytasha Rathod

Shivani Tanksale

Sabreen Baker

Delna Patel

Naila Zaidi

Jyoti Dogra

Aarti Aney

Salone Mehta

Padma Damodaran

Uttara Menon

Jaana Sinha

Rachel D'Souza

Isa Baani

Kaahini Menon

And Also:

Arunoday Singh

Crew: 

Priyanka Charan | Prompter

Guy Hershberg |Music 

Robert Kres | Music 

Yohaan Pissurlenker | Music

Mansi Multani | Singer

Avantika Bahl | Choreography

Arghya Lahiri | Lights

Rehaan Engineer | Director

Sachin Kamani | Production

Reetha Balsavar | Production

Hussain Zaidi | | Production

Meghana AT | Assistance

Priyanka Babbar | Assistance

Gargi Datar | Assistance

Madhusmita Das | | Assistance