Don Quixote sets off on West End transfer

Published: 16 June 2018
Reporter: Steve Orme

Rufus Hound as Sancho Panza and David Threlfall as Don Quixote in the 2016 production in the Swan Theatre, Stratford Credit: Helen Maybanks

The Royal Shakespeare Company production of Don Quixote, which premièred at the RSC’s Swan Theatre in Stratford in spring 2016, is to transfer to the Garrick Theatre in London’s West End.

Poet, journalist and literary critic James Fenton has adapted Miguel de Cervantes’ novel which tells the farcical story of a self-fashioned travelling knight accompanied by his faithful squire.

RSC artistic director Gregory Doran said, “we’re delighted that Angus Jackson’s joyful production of Don Quixote is going to be shared with West End audiences this autumn, following my production of Imperium at the Gielgud Theatre and our regular winter season of Shakespeare plays at the Barbican.”

David Threlfall will reprise his performance in the title role, with Rufus Hound again playing his long-suffering companion Sancho Panza.

Co-producer and theatre owner Nica Burns said, “having seen this glorious production which premièred at the Swan Theatre in 2016, we’re thrilled to be collaborating with the RSC to share this joyous and moving evening with a wider audience at its new home at the Garrick Theatre.”

Don Quixote is again directed by RSC associate director Angus Jackson. Designer is Robert Innes Hopkins, with music composed by Grant Olding, lighting by Mark Henderson and sound by Fergus O’Hare. The fight director is Malcolm Ranson. Movement is by Lucy Cullingford.

Don Quixote will run at the Garrick from Saturday 27 October until Saturday 2 February 2019.

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