Man and Superman and starring Ralph Fiennes as Jack Tanner and Indira Varma as Ann Whitefield. Man and Superman Man and Superman is a four-act drama written by George Bernard Shaw in 1903. The series was written in response to a call for Shaw to write a play based on the Don Juan theme. "Man and Superman" opened at the Royal Court Theatre in London on 23 May 1905, but it omitted the third act. A part of the act, "Don Juan in Hell" (Act 3, Scene 2), was performed when the drama was staged on 4 June 1907 at the Royal Court.
Man and Superman is the predator — "Don Juan is the quarry instead of the huntsman", as Shaw notes. Ann is referred to as "the Life Force" and represents Shaw's view that in every culture, it is the women who force the men to marry them rather than the men who take the initiative. Sally Peters Vogt proposes, "Thematically, the fluid Don Juan myth becomes a favorable milieu for Creative Evolution," and that "the legend...becomes in "Man and Superman" the vehicle through which Shaw communicates his cosmic philosophy" In 1977–1978 the RSC produced "Man and Superman" at London's Savoy Theatre. In 1982, a