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By Coby Omvlee, after Cervantes
Director: Nola Rae
Set and lighting design: Matthew Ridout
Music: Frode Fjellheim, Håvard Lund
Puppets: Matthew Ridout, Annika Udo, Coby Omvlee.
Costumes: Solveig Fugelsøy
Assistent of the director: Alexandra Aga Ulvestad
Premiere: April 18, 1998

Our Doña Quichota is almost ready for love. She has been close to drowning herself in dusty books about all kinds of love-related-issues.
After dozens of years in preparation, she now takes her own body and that of her servant Sandra Pansy out on a decisive journey into the world.
The goal of this journey is to find perfect love.
--- all while the object of her love roams unexpectantly through the desert ---
For Sandra Pansy the word "love" has a different sound. Love, for her, is hard and dangerous work. She would prefer that her mistress had left "love" safely stored in her books. Where it belongs.

Coby Omvlee's adaptation of the archetypical errant knight & servant
to their female counterparts in constant conflict with our modern times, gets full clown-treatment by the famous mime Nola Rae, in this low-tech-multi-media- extravaganza.
First played at Trøndelag Theatre with Marit Jaastad and Coby Omvlee
as actresses. Eric Spontaneo and his one-man-band: Håvard Lund. Hermann Ørn Vidarson as technician.
On tour:
Actresses: Marit Synnøve Berg and Coby Omvlee.
Eric Spontaneo and his one-man-band: Trygve Fætten.
Technician and mover of objects on- and off-stage: Truls Lorentzen.
Stage-hand:Alexandra Aga Ulvestad.

Technical information:
Stage: Min. 9.50 m. wide and 6 m. long. Min. 2.4 m high.
Electricity: 63 amp. 3 fase.
Audience:
In well equipped theatres max. 300.
In gymnasiums and the like: 140.
We prefer places where it is possible to build an kind of amfitheatre. It depends a bit on how intimate the theatre/room is. Doña Q. is an intimate performance.
In case of windows, they need to be darkened completely.
Possibility of total black-out is absolutely necessary.
Age of audience:
Originally created as a performace for youngsters and aults. After testing other age-groups we found out that the performance also can be seen by children from 10 years on.
Preparation-time: We need to be in the space 4,5 hours before and three hours after playing.
The performance lasts one hour and 10 minutes.
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