»Don Quijote« von Peter Jordan, frei nach Cervantes

In the organizer's words:

by Peter Jordan, freely adapted from Cervantes // Directed by Peter Jordan and Leonhard Koppelmann

The sun is burning, the horse is hungry, Sancho is tired - and Don Quixote is spinning his wheels. He tilts at windmills, tangles with supposed barbarians and yet he only wants what is good and best for himself, his beloved - and the whole world to boot, when he proclaims with a touch of megalomania: "I will finally step out of the shadows of world history and enter it as a true martyr."

Is he crazy, daring or just funny? What longing drives him, this Don Quixote, of whom everyone seems to have a picture, but no one really has any idea what he is. Why did he attack the windmills? And what does that actually mean: just funny?

"I'm really losing my mind! Everything I pretended to be, I'm really becoming!", he says in Peter Jordan's adaptation. A steep template for the play, the theater - and the joke. The very free adaptation takes this to the extreme. It relies on turbocharged acting, timing, slapstick and a good dose of wistful delusion. A mixture that aims to show how enjoyable theater can be if you take humor seriously.