Le Quichotte

A lance, a few windmills, a horse... and there he is! Whether or not you’ve read his adventures, no one can ignore Don Quixote... and it’s been that way for more than five centuries! Armed with three pieces of string and boundless energy, the theater company Le Festin des Idiots presents an accessible and exhilarating take on this famous literary classic.

It’s one of two things: either you already loved Don Quixote and are delighted to revisit him, or you’ve been put off by that massive tome—and here’s the perfect opportunity to dive right in. In either case, you’ll delight in reliving the picaresque adventures of this splendid and ridiculous anti-hero in this show driven by the energy of street theater, which places literature at the heart of the stage. Two performers who switch from one character to another, a playbox: that’s all it takes to bring an epic to life. A chair becomes a horse, and running in place is enough to recount several weeks of wandering. As the show unfolds, the structure breaks down and the line between fiction and reality blurs. A free, accessible, and irreverent adaptation of Cervantes’ masterpiece, inviting us to dream together of transforming the world—if only for one evening.