Drawn from de Molina’s original Spanish tale of the lover and libertine Don Juan, Mozart’s Don Giovanni premiered at Prague in 1787 with a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte.It received arapturous reception and has remained a popular and regular inclusion in the opera repertoire ever since, proving conclusively that we all love to see a baddie get his comeuppance.
Christopher Maltman (Leporello), Thomas Faulkner (Masetto), Christina Gansch (Zerlina), Royal Opera House, Don Giovanni © Marc Brenner 2022
Dipo Baruwa-Etti’s THE CLINIC has opened this week at the Almeida under the direction of Monique Touko. The title appears to be a reference to the open-plan kitchen environment of the wealthy black family’s home, in which social inequality discussions and familial bones of contention, provide rich pickings for hostility and combative misunderstandings within a family composed of both vehemently Right and Left leaning advocates, on the political spectrum. 
In Gabriel Byrne’s one-man show,