Reinterpreting Don Quixote today, through Teatro dei Venti’s poetics, highlights the possibility of continuing to act in the world in a choral way. Awakening the power of each person, so that they can continue to fight injustice, open up to wonder, take care of fragilities. Together with the wonder created by the typical tools of street theater - stilts, live music, theatrical machines - we have made an atypical addition to this tradition: the poetic word. What we undertake together in the streets and squares is a dreamlike journey that urges us back to return to the roots of our desires. What Don Quixote fights for, which is also reverberating in Sancho, is the possibility of not giving up, of not getting used to evil, keeping an eye to a future that needs all our present awareness.

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Concept, direction and dramaturgy: Stefano Tè

With: Alessandro Berardi Oxana Casolari, Francesca Figini, Davide Filippi, Esther Grigoli, Alice Mascolo, Antonio Santangelo, Christian Sidoti, Cesare Trebeschi, Francesco Valli

Music: Igino L. Caselgrandi, Pietro Colliva, Diego Lancellotti, Nicola Raccanelli

Texts: Azzurra D'Agostino

Translation: Johanna Bishop

Stage Machines: Dino Serra in collaboration with Paolo Romanini, Emanuela Savi, Chiara Pettenati

Costumes and set design: Maria Scarano - Atelier Polvere di Stelle 

Artistic consultant: Mario Barzaghi 

Assistant director: Francesco Cervellino
Sound design: Luigi Pascale, Tonino La Distruzione, Nicola Raccanelli

Sketches costumes and theatrical machines by F.M., inmate of Casa di Reclusione di Castelfranco Emilia, within the European project AHOS All Hands on Stage

Production: Teatro dei Venti

In co-production with: Solares Fondazione delle Arti Teatro delle Briciole

With the support of: Italian Ministry of Culture, Emilia-Romagna Region and Caracò

 

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