DON QUIXOTE By Mikhail Bulgakov based on Cervantes' translation by Thomas Raschke in an adaptation by JUNGEBüHNE henschel SCHAUSPIEL Theaterverlag Berlin "Imagination is the driving force of our actions" Who doesn't know it? The tragicomic story of the great dreamer Don Quixote, who has read so many chivalric romances that he believes he himself will become a knight. The play tells of the adventurous journey of Don Quixote and his squire Sancho Panza, and how the two with great courage and boundless imagination fight against windmills, which they take for giants, and other fantastical obstacles. On his Spanish odyssey, the "Knight of the Sorrowful Face" encounters monks, horse drivers and other figures whom he never recognizes for who they truly are. It's about dreams that are larger than reality and the courage to believe in the impossible. The story shows us how imagination can change the world and friendship is an unshakeable bond that no stranger can break. For although Don Quixote initially doesn't have his niece Antonia, the village priest Pedro and the village barber Nicolas behind him, he does all the more so in the moment when they slip into the roles of his invented stories. For only this way can he be protected from even more dangerous adventures. The story is set at the beginning of the 17th century somewhere in the Spanish province.
