Editing Man and Superman (section)

=== Don Juan Play ===
The long third act of the play, which shows Don Juan himself having a conversation with several characters in [[Hell]], is often cut. Charles A. Berst observes of Act III:

<blockquote>Paradoxically, the act is both extraneous and central to the drama which surrounds it. It can be dispensed with, and usually is, on grounds that it is just too long to include in an already full-length play. More significantly, it is in some aspects a digression, operates in a different mode from the rest of the material, delays the immediate well-made story line, and much of its subject matter is already implicit in the rest of the play. The play performs well without it.<ref name=extra>{{cite book|last=Berst|first=Charles A.|title=Bernard Shaw and the Art of Drama|url=https://archive.org/details/bernardshawartof0000bers|url-access=registration|year=1973|publisher=University of Illinois Press|location=Chicago|isbn=0-252-00258-X|page=[https://archive.org/details/bernardshawartof0000bers/page/126 126]}}</ref></blockquote>

''Don Juan in Hell'' consists of a philosophical debate between Don Juan (played by the same actor who plays Jack Tanner), and the [[Devil]], with Doña Ana (Ann) and the [[Statue]] of Don Gonzalo, Ana's father (Roebuck Ramsden) looking on. This third act is often performed separately as a play in its own right, most famously during the 1950s in a stage production featuring [[Charles Boyer]] as Don Juan, [[Charles Laughton]] as the Devil, [[Cedric Hardwicke]] as the Commander and [[Agnes Moorehead]] as Doña Ana.<ref>Shaw, Bernard, ''Don Juan in Hell'', New York: Dodd, Mead & Company (no date given, except renewal copyright 1931) (with photographs from the stage production).</ref> This version was also released as a [[spoken word album]] on [[LP record|LP]], but is yet to appear on CD. In 1974–1975, [[Kurt Kasznar]], [[Myrna Loy]], [[Edward Mulhare]] and [[Ricardo Montalbán]] toured nationwide in [[John Houseman]]'s reprise of the production, playing 158 cities in six months.<ref>Loy, Myrna, and James Kotsilibas-Davis, ''Being and Becoming''. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987; {{ISBN|0-394-55593-7}}  pp. 339–340</ref>