A waiting room, two passengers who wait, who hide and who are sure they are being spied on. In what is a place of transition par excellence, the two listen to and support each other. They are the duo that populates literature and the theatre. Miguel de Cervantes’ masterpiece, which was published early in the 17th century, depicted a society in a crisis, where intellectuals were incapable of facing up to a historical period dominated by the death of ideals and by materialism. The errant knight, the victim of idealism and madness, creates an archetypical role for himself in world culture, and the journey of Don Quixote and his squire Sancho Panza become the journey of the two actors, and an attempt to understand. In this play written by Federico Bellini and directed by Antonio Latella, “Cervantes’ great book becomes a pre-text to tell a story that acquires a personal significance, a process in which actors will be required to give a textual contribution, moving between the improvisation of reality and the artifice of the written word, exploring the dialectics that substantiate the entire project.”
dramatised by Federico Bellini
with Massimo Bellini and Stefano Laguni
directed by Antonio Latella
lighting design Giorgio Cervesi Ripa
set construction Clelio Alfinito
costumes Cinzia Virguti
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