Don Quixote

text Miguel de Cervantes

Scena Kameralna 1h 40 minutes, no intermission

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Do you know the tale of the nobleman from La Mancha who wanted to seek chivalrous adventures? Of course you do! The dreamer, the idealist, the blind believer in the victory of good over evil – this is Don Quixote, one of the most recognisable heroes of all time. The one who fought against windmills. The one who chose the beautiful Dulcinea as the lady of his heart. The one who was accompanied on his adventures by Sancho Panza. The one who... Well, what was it actually like with these stories? Is Don Quixote a true misguided knight or a man gone mad?

 

 

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Cast

Don Quixote / Father
Grzegorz Przybył
Sancho Panza / Patient / Monkey / Angel / Chaplain
Marcin Gaweł
Daughter / Mirror Squire / Sancho Panza 2
Aleksandra Przybył
Dulcinea / Nurse / Madamme / Innkeeper / Death
Anna Kadulska
Doctor / Monk / Innkeeper / Mirror Knight / Devil / Sun Knight
Wiesław Sławik

Creative and production team

direction and adaptation
Jakub Roszkowski
stage design
Mirek Kaczmarek
music
Dominik Strycharski
choreography
medical consultations
Marcin Leśniewski
assistant director
Alicja Juszkiewicz
stage manager, prompter
Barbara Dudek
sound production
Franciszek Borgiel
lighting production
Waldemar Janiszek
projections production
Piotr Trzęsowski
production management
Małgorzata Długowska-Błach
technical production manager
Maciej Rokita
production assistant
Dorota Damec

Jakub Roszkowski’s Don Quixote is an intriguing, coherent and reflective play in which laughter alternates with sadness. The concept of locating the action in a geriatric ward is not obvious, but very apt. The director treats the audience to an emotional rollercoaster. And although we laugh at Anna Kadulska’s situational jokes and watch the patients’ adventures, giggling under our breath, after the finale we leave the room full of reverie, and the performance itself will resonate in us for a long time to come.

Magdalena Mikrut-Majeranek, teatrologia.info

Grzegorz Przybył, Don Quixote, Patient and Father, impresses with his mastery, he wins the necessary tones with silence and body work, at other times with awakening anger, aggression, shouting. This ambiguous figure is the epicentre of the performance, he measures the pulse of this world, sets the course of action, becomes the probe of emotions, the sensitivity of a man doomed to annihilation by others. He seamlessly traverses the borderline between dream and reality, arousing compassion, disturbing, moving and sometimes amusing.

Wojciech Lipowski, „Śląsk”

Scenes of slow and boring hospital life are juxtaposed with Don Quixote’s phantasmagorical adventures that happen in his head, because everything happens in the head. It is there, in the head, that an IV stand can turn into a sword, a wheelchair into a horse. The imaginary, drug-induced world sparkles with colour and costumes, as if from a dell`arte comedy. Is it the hospital staff, the patient and Don Quixote’s daughter who make his life interesting, or is it him who lets them follow his imagination?”

Marta Fox, martafox.pl

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