Details

After a lifetime of reading books on chivalry, Don Quixote decides to embark on a quest of his own and sets out to become a wandering knight, defending the helpless and vanquishing the wicked. Hopelessly unprepared and increasingly losing his grip on reality, he travels across Spain with his faithful and equally ill-suited squire. With each calamitous adventure they experience, the romantic ideal of Quixote's books seems further away than ever. Angus Jackson returns to the RSC after his highly-acclaimed production of Oppenheimer, to direct the stage adaptation of Cervantes' comic novel, widely regarded as one of the foundation stones of modern fiction. The production marks the 400th anniversary of Cervantes' death in 1616, by coincidence the same date as William Shakespeare.

Cast/Performers

David Threlfall (Don Quixote), Rufus Hound (Sancho Panza), Will Bliss, John Cummins, Ruth Everett, Gabriel Fleary, Gemma Goggin, Theo Fraser Steele, Natey Jones, Richard Leeming, Nicholas Lumley, Tom McCall, Joshua McCord, Bathsheba Piepe, Rosa Robson, Amy Rockson, Timothy Speyer, Eleanor Wyld

Creatives/Company

Book by: Miguel de Cervantes
Company: Royal Shakespeare Company
Director(s): Angus Jackson, Jeremy Dunn (fight director)
Design: Robert Innes Hopkins
Music(s): Grant Olding, Grant Olding
Lighting: Johanna Town
Sound: Jeremy Dunn
Dramaturg: Pippa Hill