Mixed reviews for David and his new play

A glitzy new show starring David Tennant had been described by critics as everything from “pants” to “fantastic”.

Former Paisley Grammar School pupil David is appearing in the title role in Patrick Marber’s saucy Don Juan in Soho, in London’s West End.

But it’s meeting with mixed reviews.

The Daily Telegraph’s reviewer writes: “I’m not going to beat about the bush.

“Patrick Marber’s updated version of Moliere’s hoary 1665 comedy strikes me as pants.”

He adds: “Roll up, roll up to see David Tennant strutting his stuff in a posing pouch, scrawny chest and legs peeping from beneath a flapping dressing-gown.

“The West End surely affords no stranger sight this season than this former Time Lord, currently inducing fresh ripples of pleasure in Broadchurch viewers as the super-intense DI Alec Hardy, gyrating away and baring almost all as incorrigible lothario Don Juan.”

However, the reviewer admits David is “still a dish at 45”.

The Guardian’s reviewer is much more positive.

“If Don Juan doesn’t know when to stop, I don’t know where to begin in describing Patrick Marber’s play and this fantastic, entertaining and unflagging production, which he directs,” she writes.

She went on: “Tennant’s relish of the part is contagious, and Don Juan’s self- approval goes into overdrive.”

And David gets the thumbs- up up from Time Out, even if the play doesn’t.

“David Tennant shines in Patrick Marber’s iffy story of sexual adventure in Soho,” reads the online headline.

And The Stage says: “As DJ, David Tennant strikes lots of poses, but he looks faintly embarrassed to be cast as such a stud.” The Independent loved it. “David Tennant is every bit as magnificent in the title role here as he was as Hamlet,” says the review.