Quixote

IMPOSSIBLE DREAMS

Quixote, the first show created by Buntport Theater, is a transformative action piece satirizing academic life. Miguel de Cervantes’ novel Don Quixote inspired the arc and some of the text of the show. The performance style, on the other hand, has many influences that we consider to appropriately capture the feel of Cervantes’ work: East European Action Design, Comedia del’ Arte, Vaudeville, cartoon animation and comic book illustration. The show is a fun mixture of playful intellectual discussion and slapstick humor.

Quixote is staged entirely with only chalk, chalkboards and erasers, the age-old tools of academia. The protagonist is a professor that is as obsessed with the novel Don Quixote as the character Don Quixote is obsessed with books on chivalry.

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A student sits in front of a large chalkboard. The class seated behind him is drawn in chalk. The chalk students have real arms that poke out from behind the chalkboard.

Two large, rolling chalkboards are pushed together. One board has a chalk drawing of a woman working at a passport window. The other board has a chalk drawing of a man working at a Visa window. A man and a woman peak out from the opening made between the two chalkboards. It is clear that the drawings on the chalkboards are modeled after them.

A professor with a large mustache and goatee stands in front of a chalkboard packed full of writing. Next to him is another chalkboard with a chalk drawing of a students in a classroom. In the middle of the chalk drawing there is a life size outline of a student who is missing. The name "Chip" is written in the blank spot.

Close up of a student seated in front of a chalkboard. The chalkboard is full of chalk drawings of other students. The real student whispers into the ear of one of the chalk students.

A ragged looking group of men in women dressed entirely in black, and covered in chalk dust, stand in front of a giant rolling chalkboard. On the upper left hand corner of the chalkboard, the word Quixote is written.

Close up of a man with a large goatee trying to speak with a woman who is wearing a small chalkboard mask. Drawn on the chalkboard mask is a nose and mouth. The woman seems to be smoking a long piece of chalk like a cigarette and is pushing the goateed man back with a large eraser.

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