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.

Cast/Performers

David Threlfall (Don Quixote), Rufus Hound (Sancho Panza), Will Bliss, Raphael Bushay, Farrell Cox, John Cummins, Richard Dempsey, Ruth Everett, Gabriel Fleary, Richard Leeming, Nicholas Lumley, Natasha Magigi, Tom McCall, Joshua McCord, Bathsheba Piepe, Rosa Robson, Timothy Speyer, Eleanor Wyld

Creatives/Company

Book by: Miguel de Cervantes
Company: Royal Shakespeare Company
Director(s): Angus Jackson, Malcolm Ranson (fight director), Lucy Cullingford (movement director)
Design: Robert Innes Hopkins
Music(s): Grant Olding, Grant Olding
Lighting: Mark Henderson
Sound: Fergus O'Hare
Dramaturg: Pippa Hill