Miguel de Cervantes Archives

A woman in a short white dress and head covering hangs airborne, one hand clutching a silk rope. To her right and holding her other hand is a man in a dark tunic. His back is to the camera

Quixote goes airborne

by Kimzyn Campbell February 23, 2023February 23, 2023

Circus Quixotic, the winter circus production at The Actors Gymnasium, flips the story of Don Quixote into a modern retelling. Through metaphor and audience asides from the actors, director and adapter duo David and Kerry Catlin condense Miguel de Cervantes’s 1,072-page tome of misadventures into a family-friendly chunk of mayhem featuring the title character and […]

The ensemble of Don Quixote in Spanish-style costumes stands in a circle around a blanket upon which Sancho Panza is being tossed into the air. The set backdrop is brick and stucco and Spanish-Moorish in design

Dance

Romance languages

by Irene Hsiao June 6, 2022June 6, 2022

Two years into this pestilence, the misery of war, the disappointment of mankind day after day weighing down desperate minds, with a future certain of nothing but social and planetary destruction, do we not long for a reprieve? As the nobleman Alonso Quijano sought glory in the guise of the knight Don Quixote, as a […]