Don Quixote

The show is based on a selection of iconic moments from Cervantes’ novel and on an ancient handwritten script, preserved in the Company’s archives and never performed before. Victim of a visionary madness, fueled by obsession with chivalric literature that shows him reality distorted by extreme idealization of life's, humanity's and love's values, Alonso Quijano proclaims himself Don Quixote of La Mancha. Fantasy takes over reality, forcing him into battles and adventures, on a “wandering” path in which he also pursues the fair Dulcinea, a nonexistent lady born of his imagination. Sancho Panza, the indispensable squire — who in the 1879 manuscript was played by Gerolamo, the puppet symbol of Milan — embodies the simple sense of things, which often brings the “hero” back to reality. Dusty libraries and picaresque landscapes, imaginary knights, windmills mistaken for giants, but also islands to rule and princesses to save, which are nothing more than puppets of a company of storytellers, form the backdrop to the adventures of the two characters, in a dizzying journey between fantasy and reality. Dates: - Saturday 19 December at 18:00 - Sunday 20 December at 16:30