cover photo by Micha Langer
“A cosmically inclined
theatrical court jester”
Mel Gussow, The New York
Times
“A blissfully
zany...comedy...
...it is mainly just a
free-wheeling romp that takes off some of the characters,
incidents, and ideas in Cervantes' book. It is that form of
comedy, known as burlesque or travesty, which achieves its humor
by the low and ridiculous transformation of a loftier subject.
(Actually, since the original DON QUIXOTE was itself a burlesque
of medieval romances, DON QUIXOTE DE LA JOLLA is in effect a
travesty of a travesty.)
More accurately, DON QUIXOTE DE
LA JOLLA is not so much a burlesque of the original book (which
few people read anyway) but of the image of the book in the mass
mind as fostered by other adaptations, most significantly MAN OF
LA MANCHA....
DON QUIXOTE DE LA JOLLA is, then, a headlong, hectic, hilarious
rush, a frantic comic phantasmagoria on Quixotic themes, that needs no scholar
annotations; it is great good fun.”
George Weinberg-Harter, Drama-Logue
originally produced by The La Jolla Playhouse
3 M, 2 F
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