DON QUIXOTE! DON QUIXOTE! (2012) | Photo by the Pantas

Devised and performed by: Chiara D’Anna, Juancho Gonzalez, Stephanie Lewis, Dani Rejano, Almudena Segura, Tommy Scott-Williamson and Anna Zehentbauer.

Directed by: Chiara D’Anna

Music and Sound: Steve Harry Mason

Scenography: The Pantas

Costume Designer: Nadia Malik

Photos by The Pantas

Don Quixote! Don Quixote!’ is an adaptation of our site-specific promenade performance Rocinante! Rocinante! It premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival as a co-production Panta Rei Theatre and Pleasance Theatre.

During our Edinburgh adventure we discovered that our piece was too wild and too ‘anarchic’ to cope with the constrains of a conventional end-on blackbox theatre.

As a result Edinburgh’s magnificent outdoor sites and in particular Arthur’s Seat became incredibly inspiring for the Pantas. We had the opportunity to play with the magnificent surroundings and people in the streets rediscovering our characters and their world all over again. And another journey into Don Quixote’s world of entrancing imagery, bizarre characters and magical encounters began…this time in a surprising, powerful and unexpected scenario!

★★★★ A Younger Theatre

“Don Quixote! Don Quixote! is imaginative and engaging, with a compelling and twisting narrative that will make an audience both laugh and cry."

Audience Responses:

"It represents everything theatre should be. It was moving…really moving."

"I’ve never been mesmerised like that for a long time"

"Absolutely brilliant! Fantastic!"