
International Theatre Database
Category
Play
Country
United Kingdom
Run Dates
Feb 25 - May 21, 2016
Venue
Run Time
165 minutes
2016.02.25 ~ 2016.05.21
RSC
2016.02.25 ~ 2016.05.21
Garrick Theatre
After a lifetime of reading books on chivalry, one eccentric old man heads off on a rumbustious quest to become a wandering knight, accompanied by his faithful and equally ill-suited servant, Sancho Panza. Taking up a lance and sword, Don Quixote sets out on a hilarious journey across medieval Spain, defending the helpless and vanquishing the wicked. Hopelessly unprepared and increasingly losing his grip on reality, with each calamitous adventure the two hapless heroes experience, the romantic ideal of Quixote’s books seems further away than ever. Following its sell-out run at the Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon in 2016 to mark the 400th anniversary of Cervantes' death, our joyous production of the legendary comic novel went to the Garrick Theatre in London to be told by a company of 20 actors accompanied by a band of live musicians.