Don Quixote Update
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@Meanderer Thank you for posting this delightful video! I absolutely love, love, the fresh adaptation with its uniquely singular application towards the modern world.
I think it’s brilliantly scripted, and profoundly poised, inciting thoughtful pause and reflection, in almost a keener sense that offers less complexity and sound interpretation than what I glean from merely reading the novels.
Not only that, but I love the mental freedom to move between both the original storytelling and the modern rendition, as it offers glimmers of more in-depth understanding that is relatable and explainable whenever I opt to revisit the storyline. Each time I do, I walk away knowing a little more than before.
Keith Dewhurst, author of the play Don Quixote (1982) once said:
“I don’t think I understand what Don Quixote is about, and I don’t think anybody knows what Don Quixote is about.”
His words make me smile and laugh inside because I share mutual feeling, and it makes sense to me as to why I’m drawn to this wonderful thread you’ve created, again, and again. Every time I visit, I discover something new that I either missed, or didn’t know before.
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I like how we still think of DQ as a living, breathing person! HE is the story! We can identify with him......
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The Inspiration of Don Quixote
"As a Spanish gentleman living a quiet life of retirement and enjoying his favorite pastime of reading medieval romances about knights and their ladies, Don Quixote one day feels inspired to emulate the knights of old and restore the ideals of chivalry, honor, truth, courtesy, and service that his own age has relegated to the past." READ MORE
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New Don Quixote tells a border tale for a modern era
Playwright Octavio Solis sets this retelling on the Texas-Mexico border
"In “Quixote Nuevo,” at the Alley Theatre through Feb. 9, Solis has placed Quixote’s story in the modern era, in the fictional border town of La Plancha, on the Texas-Mexico border, starring a man who decides to see the world rather than be placed in an assisted living home."
Playwright Octavio Solis sets this retelling on the Texas-Mexico border
"In “Quixote Nuevo,” at the Alley Theatre through Feb. 9, Solis has placed Quixote’s story in the modern era, in the fictional border town of La Plancha, on the Texas-Mexico border, starring a man who decides to see the world rather than be placed in an assisted living home."
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Tuesday 7 November 2023
King enjoys ballet performance so much ‘he could not stop tapping his feet’
Charles and Camilla chose not to sit in the Royal Box at the Opera House and instead requested to sit in the Grand Tier, in the centre of the theatre, where they were surrounded by members of the public
"The King enjoyed a performance by the Royal Ballet so much that he “could not stop tapping his feet under the seat” as he was impressed by the show’s energy."
"Charles and the Queen visited the Royal Opera House in central London for a special performance of Carlos Acosta’s Don Quixote, before going behind the curtain to meet the cast of the show on Tuesday."
"The couple enjoyed the performance alongside hundreds of NHS workers who had been invited to the show in recognition of their work and service, as well as teachers the Royal Opera House works with, and members of the Songs for Ukraine chorus – which invites displaced Ukrainians to come and sing at the Royal Opera House." READ MORE
King enjoys ballet performance so much ‘he could not stop tapping his feet’
Charles and Camilla chose not to sit in the Royal Box at the Opera House and instead requested to sit in the Grand Tier, in the centre of the theatre, where they were surrounded by members of the public
"The King enjoyed a performance by the Royal Ballet so much that he “could not stop tapping his feet under the seat” as he was impressed by the show’s energy."
"Charles and the Queen visited the Royal Opera House in central London for a special performance of Carlos Acosta’s Don Quixote, before going behind the curtain to meet the cast of the show on Tuesday."
"The couple enjoyed the performance alongside hundreds of NHS workers who had been invited to the show in recognition of their work and service, as well as teachers the Royal Opera House works with, and members of the Songs for Ukraine chorus – which invites displaced Ukrainians to come and sing at the Royal Opera House." READ MORE
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15 Things You Might Not Know About Don Quixote
"Even if you have never picked up a copy of Miguel de Cervantes’s novel The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha, you’re likely familiar with the story: one of delusional noblemen, portly squires, and windmill monsters. Nevertheless, there could be a few little-known facts you haven’t heard about the two-volume 17th-century masterpiece." (READ MORE)
"Even if you have never picked up a copy of Miguel de Cervantes’s novel The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha, you’re likely familiar with the story: one of delusional noblemen, portly squires, and windmill monsters. Nevertheless, there could be a few little-known facts you haven’t heard about the two-volume 17th-century masterpiece." (READ MORE)
For those unfamiliar with the Don Quixote de la Mancha novel, here is a summary.
https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/donquixote/plot-analysis/
https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/donquixote/plot-analysis/