The new show 'Don Quixote' at the FITS - Sibiu International Theatre Festival
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Theatre
Reinterpreting Don Quixote today, through Teatro dei Venti’s poetics, highlights the possibility of continuing to act in the world in a choral way. Awakening the power of each person, so that they can continue to fight injustice, open up to wonder, take care of fragilities. Together with the wonder created by the typical tools of street theatre – stilts, live music, theatrical machines – we have made an atypical addition to this tradition: the poetic word. What we undertake together in the streets and squares is a dreamlike journey that urges us back to return to the roots of our desires. What Don Quixote fights for, which is also reverberating in Sancho, is the possibility of not giving up, of not getting used to evil, keeping an eye to a future that needs all our present awareness.
Concept, direction and dramaturgy Stefano Tè
With Alessandro Berardi Oxana Casolari, Francesca Figini, Davide Filippi, Esther Grigoli, Alice Mascolo, Antonio Santangelo, Christian Sidoti, Cesare Trebeschi, Francesco Valli
Music Igino L. Caselgrandi, Pietro Colliva, Diego Lancellotti, Nicola Raccanelli
Texts Azzurra D'Agostino. Translation by Johanna Bishop
Stage Machines Dino Serra, in collaboration with Paolo Romanini, Emanuela Savi, Chiara Pettenati
Costumes and set design Maria Scarano - Atelier Polvere di Stelle
Artistic consultant Mario Barzaghi
Sound design Luigi Pascale, Tonino La Distruzione, Nicola Raccanelli. Sound technician Nicola Raccanelli
Assistant director Francesco Cervellino
Sketches costumes and theatrical machines by F.M., inmate of Casa di Reclusione di Castelfranco Emilia, within the European project AHOS All Hands on Stage
Production Teatro dei Venti
In co-production with Solares Fondazione delle Arti Teatro delle Briciole
With the support of Italian Ministry of Culture, Emilia-Romagna Region and Caracò
from 29/06/2024 to 30/06/2024 hour 19.00
Don Quixote is a performance for urban spaces freely based on the Spanish literary masterpiece by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. As in the novel, the protagonist is Alonso Quixano who, after getting lost in his adventure novels, becomes convinced that he is a knight errant. He then leaves the poor region of La Mancha, where he lives, and sets out as a protector of justice and peace, in defence of the oppressed and the highest values.
At his side appears from the start, acting as his squire, Sancho Panza, a ‘fool’ who sets out on his donkey chasing the promise of future wealth, the promise of lands of which he will be governor.
The performance’s dramaturgy does not chronologically follow the succession of events in the novel, but combines a punctuation of different times and places to build a character portrait suitable for theatre in urban spaces. This story is told by a Narrator who, together with his assistant, will beat the time of the progression of the scenes and guide the spectators through the utopian journey of the two protagonists.
As in the novel, all of Quixote's actions will prove to be failures, clashing with the rigid grids of a pitiless reality with no way out. Step by step, defeat after defeat, we witness the gradual sinking of Don Quixote into despair. The dream that made him set out on his journey dies in him.
Sancho will be the one who, although sceptical at the beginning of the story, will always remain at Don Quixote's side and will allow himself to be persuaded by his ideals and his nobility of spirit, he will pick up his spiritual legacy, and with a touching final monologue addressed to the audience, he will invite the spectators not to give up and to believe that, united in the search for true justice, a change is possible.
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