Don Quixote

Alessio Boni in the role of the errant knight and Serra Yilmaz, Ferzan Ozpetek's muse, in that of Sancho Panza, are the protagonists of Cervantes' immense work.

"Who is mad? Who is normal?" asks Alessio Boni, co-author of the show's dramaturgy and direction. "Perhaps those who live in their lucid madness still manage to perform heroic acts. Or better: perhaps it takes some form of madness, even more than courage, to perform heroic acts. 

The lucid madness is what allows you to suspend, for an eternal moment, the sense of the limit.

Don Quixote goes further: he transcends this awareness and fights for an ethical, heroic ideal. An ideal that enriches every daily gesture with value. And which, unintentionally, made him immortal. [...] Men who, over the centuries, have dared to break free from a network of pre-determined rules - availing themselves of dreams, fantasy, imagination - have often been considered 'mad'. Yet, they were rehabilitated by history itself. After all, it is precisely those who are mad enough to believe in their vision of the world, and go against the tide, who deserve to be remembered in eternity: among others, Galileo, Leonardo, Mozart, Che Guevara, Mandela, Mother Teresa, Steve Jobs and, why not, Don Quixote.

DON QUIXOTE

adaptation by Francesco Niccolini 
freely based on Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra's novel
dramaturgy by Roberto Aldorasi, Alessio Boni, Marcello Prayer and Francesco Niccolini
with Alessio Boni, Serra Yilmaz
and with Marcello Prayer
Francesco Meoni, Pietro Faiella, Liliana Massari, Elena Nico, Biagio Iacovelli (Ronzinante)
set design Massimo Troncanetti
costume design Francesco Esposito 
light design Davide Scognamiglio
music Francesco Forni
direction Roberto Aldorasi, Alessio Boni, Marcello Prayer 
production Nuovo Teatro directed by Marco Balsamo