Buntport Theater

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.

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.