DON JUAN: Kingston - Phil Willmott

LEPORELLO: Well, why don’t you have something to eat
anyway? Everything’s ready.
COLIN: To be honest I’m not that hungry.
LEPORELLO: Oh well… all the more for us. Come on kids!
KIDS CHEER AND RUSH OUT TO THE KITCHEN.
LEPORELLO: (TO DON JUAN) A paradise for lovers, eh? It
doesn’t look like there’s going to be much call for that
round here.
HE EXITS.
DON JUAN: Where I come from a man tells his woman
where she will be for the evening and she obeys.
COLIN: I wouldn’t hold out much hope of that round here,
mate. You’ll end up with a black eye.
DON JUAN: Your lady, she does not like fine wine,
delicious food, candle light, romance?
COLIN: Yes, she does… but she’s got this job you see and
most of the people she has to deal with work in the
evenings. I just thought maybe this once she might be
able to take the night off… she’s always complaining that I
never do anything spur of the moment, or impulsive or…
So I thought I’d try and “whisk her away”, as the
expression is, but she just looked at me as if I was the
same dull old Colin.
DON JUAN: What did you say to her?
COLIN: Oh, I don’t know. I can’t remember.
DON JUAN: Did you tell her that your body had been
yearning for her all day, that you longed to gaze deep into
her beautiful eyes and revisit the ecstasy that only the
touch of her hand in yours can bring you? To watch the
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