Don Quixote: The Tales of Don Q
Don Quixote: The Tales of Don Q
Don Quixote: The Tales of Don Q by Jennie Berman Eng
Production History:
University of Colorado-Boulder, touring production 2015
Cast: 5–13
Genre: adaptation, comedy, young audiences
Keyword: Cervantes, Classic, precocious youths, outdoors
In this updated, young audience-friendly version of Don Quixote, our hero, Donald, is a teenager with a propensity for reading. While his peers are busy texting and taking selfies, Donald reads about knights and chivalry. Feeling so disillusioned with his generation, Donald decides to become a knight errant, seeking adventures in his native land of suburban Denver. He enlists his neighbor, eight-year-old Julia, who he calls Sancho Panza, and she becomes his squire. Using their scooters and a broom for horses, and garbage can lids as armor, they encounter a wind farm, which Donald mistakes for giants attacking them. Time after time, Donald mistakes an innocent situation for an attack on his knighthood. Though his quest to win the love of his paramour, Dulcinea, is unrequited, Donald remains dedicated to chivalry. With original, comedic songs, Don Q convinces everyone around him to live in the moment, look up from their screens, and embrace a life of adventure.
Representation
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