Don Quixote at Columbus Performing Arts Center
Dates: (3/26/2015 - 4/12/2015 )
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In this splintered adaptation of Cervantes’ novel, Isabel makes a 500 mile pilgrimage across Spain on the Camino de Santiago. Don Quixote: a pilgrimage mixes the massive (and metafictional) novel with a wide variety of modern sources. It examines the power of pilgrimage, how we get lost, and how we can find ourselves again.
Available Light’s latest world premiere production is the result of a year-long collaboration between playwright Jen Schlueter (Joint Artistic Director of the for/word company) and Available Light’s company of artists. Rather than attempting to directly adapt Cervantes’s nine-hundred page masterwork (widely regarded as the first modern novel) the collective used the book as a starting point to explore its structure, characters, themes, and contemporary relevance.
The finished work is an homage to Don Quixote’s influence, featuring characters from the book mixed with Schlueter’s invented story of a woman, Isabel, making a pilgrimage across modern-day Spain. Meanwhile, Sancho Panza and Rocinante (a trusty nag) are searching for their lost master. Isabel follows the famed Camino de Santiago as she confronts everything she’s been avoiding for so many years. On the road and off, she encounters numerous pilgrims from around the world, each one trekking slowly but surely away from“ past.
Don Quixote: a pilgrimage is supported by grants from the Greater Columbus Arts Council, the Columbus Foundation, and the Ohio Arts Council. Additional funding was provided by more than thirty individual supporters through the GCAC’s Power2Give online crowd-funding platform.
Cast and Creative team for Don Quixote at Columbus Performing Arts Center
Written by Jen Schlueter
Directed by Matt Slaybaugh
Featuring Acacia Duncan, Drew Eberly, David Glover, Kim Garrison Hopcraft, and Elena Perantoni.
Directed by Matt Slaybaugh
Featuring Acacia Duncan, Drew Eberly, David Glover, Kim Garrison Hopcraft, and Elena Perantoni.
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