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Actor Joseph Sexton stars in "I am Don Quixote of La Mancha", a free version of the text of Cervantes, signing Jose Ramon Fernandez, National Dramatic Literature Prize 2011.

Sexton, who will receive the Award of 43 International Festival of Theatre, Music and Dance in San Javier for Lifetime Achievement, interprets this play, directed by Luis Bermejo, who claimed the figure of Don Quixote as a hero in a time of widespread crisis.

Sancho's characters, played by Fernando Soto, and her daughter, Sanchica, the actress who plays Almudena Ramos, accompany Don Quixote, in this production of Metropolis.

Both appear as two people without evil, able to see the crazy and good man is Don Quixote, and the world needs to understand what he represents.

José Ramón Fernández is to show the essence of the noble knight, his most significant, and reconstruct the collective memories aroused by the universal character created by Miguel de Cervantes, with a version that goes beyond the story told "Don Quijote de la Mancha ", but maintains the Cervantes language and tone, without departing from the frames and original episodes.

The purpose of the staging of this show, shared by playwright and director, is to extract from the book "the desire for goodness, justice, solidarity, love to raise over men", and raise the need to believe in the existence of "crazy dream that can be able to help others and that's worth, and that no sane so clean that they can help stop those crazy and dreaming like them."

The staging uses the play within a play, a game that allows dramatic characters, who accompanied the cellist José Luis López, in and out of reality and fiction, by involving the spectators throughout the process development of the work.

Jose Sacristan who at 75 years are in top form as an actor, returns to the character that gave life and in the musical "Man of La Mancha" with a text that he himself has defined as "very beautiful Cervantes and say and feel, which has the added value as a citizen, of a character, that today comes to mind too as a defender get an idea of ​​justice. "

The play opened in July of last year's Festival of Almagro Classical Theatre, has several quotes before you start touring season in Madrid in mid-November.

Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier