Don Juan, or Wages of Debauchery
Off Off Broadway, Jan Hus Playhouse
Reviewed by Jason Rost
BOTTOM LINE: The puppets dazzle even if some of the comedy fizzles.
In 1984, Czech puppeteer Vit Horejs discovered 69 remarkable marionettes aged 50 to 150 years old at the Jan Hus Church on the Upper East Side. He has since founded the Czechoslovak-American Theatre with fellow Czech transplants, directed 20 string-puppet plays, published numerous translations of Czech puppet plays, produced a documentary on Czech puppetry, and even acted in a Woody Allen film in his spare time. His is a remarkable story of a New York theatre artist...
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