Reflections of Cervantes in Don Quixote

The play is based on new research into the over-mythologised personality of the protagonist, Cervantes.  We tend to think of Cervantes as a literary figure, a bookworm, like Camilo José Cela, a vision implanted by the over-worn portrait of the author wearing a ruff and brandishing a quill.  We know a few facts about Cervantes’ life, some odd pieces of the jigsaw, but these have not allowed us to build a complete and realistic picture of him.

The impact of Cervantes, as the author of Don Quixote, on the history of literature and the history of Spain, has clearly resulted in all the attention being focussed on this aspect of his life, so that we have reinterpreted the rest of his biography and work very partially, with a preconceived – and consequently diminished – view of his personality.

http://www.festivalspanishtheatre.co.uk/plays/reflections-of-cervantes-in-don-quixote/

Author: Alberto Herreros

Director: Alberto Herreros

Cast: JOSE VICENTE MOIRON, ANA MARZOA, BLANCA JARA, ANA CROUSEILLES, JESÚS BARRANCO, JOSE LUIS ALCOBENDAS, DANIEL MORENO, SANDRA MERINO

Producer: Pánico Escénico

Running Time: 1 hour 10 minutes (approx)

No interval
Activity held on the occasion of the fourth centenary of the death of Cervantes  http://400cervantes.es/en/