The Royal Shakespeare Company is to produce for the first time Don Quixote to mark the 400th anniversary of the death of author Miguel de Cervantes.
As previously announced, David Threlfall takes the title role and Rufus Hound will play Sancho Panza in a new stage adaptation by James Fenton. It will be directed by Angus Jackson who worked on the RSC production of Tom Morton-Smith’s Oppenheimer which transferred to the West End after a run in the Swan Theatre in 2015.
The cast of Don Quixote includes Will Bliss, John Cummins, Ruth Everett, Gabriel Fleary, Gemma Goggin, Theo Fraser Steele, Natey Jones, Richard Leeming, Nicholas Lumley, Tom McCall, Joshua McCord, Bathsheba Piepe, Rosa Robson, Amy Rockson, Timothy Speyer and Eleanor Wyld.
Design is by Robert Innes Hopkins, with lighting by Johanna Town. The music is composed by Grant Olding, with sound by Jeremy Dunn. The fight director is Malcolm Ranson. Pippa Hill is literary manager and dramaturgist.
Don Quixote runs in the Swan Theatre, Stratford from Thursday 25 February until Saturday 21 May. Press night will be Thursday 3 March.