CERVANTES:  EL ÚLTIMO QUIJOTE

(THE LAST QUIXOTE)​

TEATRO GALA

Sept ​8 to Oct 2​

Friday Sept 9

​Playwright​ Jordi Casanovas ​will be in DC to talk about this play.  First, at the Library of Congress:​​

http://www.spainculture.us/city/washington-dc/jordi-casanovas-at-the-library-of-congress/​ ​

​After, the same day and after the show at 8pm, he will participate in a ​talk with the director and the public at Gala Hispanic Theatre.

Director ​

José Luis Arellano is a theater, opera and television director from Spain, who in previous seasons directed Yerma, Caballero de Olmedo, ¡Ay, Carmela!, and Cabaret Barroco at GALA. He received the 2016 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Director for his staging of Yerma, and will work again with 2016 Helen Hayes Award winners Silvia de Marta, Outstanding Set Design, and Christopher Annas-Lee, Outstanding Lighting Design, also for Yerma.  

Synopsis

Miguel de Cervantes has just died in the street. A drunk insists that the man who killed him is the renowned poet Lope de Vega, but nobody believes him. This man also recounts how Cervantes shared with him secrets of his fascinating life and how together they discovered who authored the fictitious second part of Don Quixote. With a lively and contemporary language, Casanovas tells a story of adventure, rivalries, love, secrets and redemption. He relives the stormy times of the great writer’s life, his imprisonments, his rivalry with fellow writer Lope de Vega, the unbridled creativity of his last years, and his obsession with recognition and posterity. It is a Cervantes in constant struggle with life, full of fury, and ultimately human.

ABOUT ‘DON QUIXOTE’ BY AVELLANEDA 

The Quixote by Avellaneda is an interesting puzzle of Spanish literature. In 1614, one Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda, which appears to be a pseudonym, claimed authorship of the second part of Don Quixote de La Mancha, of which the first part had clearly been written by Cervantes had been published nine years earlier. Although The Quixote by Avellaneda did not challenge Miguel de Cervantes and his work; the book made light of Cervantes’ characters and their adventures. Many theories have been furthered by linguists and historians about the author of the second part, but none of them have been proven. The gap in the publication of the two parts makes it possible to imagine who could have written the second part of the literary masterpiece, a turning point in the life of Miguel de Cervantes as a writer.

This production is produced ​by Gala Hispanich Theatre ​with Acción Sur and is made possible with generous support from the Embassy of Spain in Washington, DC, SPAIN arts & culture, INAEM, Acción Cultural Española through its Programa de Internacionalización de la Cultura Española (ACE/PICE), the National Endowment for the Arts, and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.
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​http://www.spainculture.us/city/washington-dc/cervantes-el-ultimo-quijote-the-last-quixote/ 

Tickets at ​ www.galatheatre.org