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Theatre director Gwenaël Morin takes on the most famous of all picaresque novels, staging Quixote as a lively and free theatre of cruelty and the sublimation of differences.
Obsessed by chivalric novels, Alonso Quichano decides to become a knight errant and travel through Spain to fight evil, which he sees everywhere, even in innocuous windmills. The narrative of Miguel de Cervantes’ great, early seventeenth century novel is well known. Armed with his own literary fictions, Gwenaël Morin also attacks this monument, in the company of Jeanne Balibar, Thierry Dupont, and Marie-Noëlle Genod. But unlike the frequently gentle vision of this story, in this director’s interpretation, Don Quixote is the victim of a frenetic succession of brutalities and humiliations that are sometimes inflicted gratuitously by various people who take advantage of his credulity and blindness. And even though the effects of his resistance are laughable and in vain, his madness is necessary, liberating, and healthy. Don Quixote is the second part of the series Démonter les remparts pour finir le pont [“Dismantle the ramparts to finish the bridge”], which began with the Festival d’Avignon and was inaugurated with the unforgettable Le Songe [“The dream”], presented at La Villette in the autumn of 2023. Or, how to tell stories of the untenable that free us.
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Casting / Production credits
With Jeanne Balibar, Thierry Dupont (performer from the L’Oiseau Mouche company), Marie-Noëlle, Gwenaël Morin Adaptation, direction, and set design Gwenaël Morin Assistant director Léo Martin Lighting Philippe Gladieux Vocal work Myriam Djemour Costumes Elsa Depardieu General stage management Loïc Even Lighting management Gildas Gouget
Production management, tours EPOC productions Emmanuelle Ossena, Charlotte Pesle Beal, Lison Bellanger Production Company Gwenaël Morin / Théâtre Permanent
Co-production Festival d’Avignon; La Villette (Paris); TnBA Théâtre National de Bordeaux en Aquitaine; Bonlieu-Scène Nationale Annecy; Théâtre Garonne Toulouse; Les Célestins-Théâtre de Lyon; Théâtre du bois de l’Aune Aix en Provence; Théâtre Sorano – conventioned stage Toulouse; Théâtre Saint-Gervais Geneva; Malraux – national stage Chambéry Savoie
Supported by the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region and the ENSATT integration scheme
Creation residencies at TnBA Bordeaux, La Ménagerie de Verre Paris as part of the StudioLab scheme, La Villette (Paris), Festival d’Avignon (Jardin de Mons-Maison Jean Vilar)
The Gwenaël Morin / Théâtre Permanent company is conventioned by the DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
L’Oiseau-Mouche Roubaix is the delegated producer for Thierry Dupont.
Thanks to Théâtre Paris-Villette
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Théâtre Paris-Villette
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Line 5 - Porte de Pantin station
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Line 3b - Porte de Pantin station
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Bus 75, 151 - Porte de Pantin stop
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Q-Park
Philharmonie
Q-Park
Cité de la Musique - La Villette
Q-Park
Cité de la Musique - Conservatoire
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Cité des Sciences
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