Where are you, Don Quixote?

“Where Are You, Don Quixote?”

A Circus Parable

Based on Miguel de Cervantes’ novel Don Quixote

The Israel Youth Theatre presents a major anniversary premiere, marking two significant milestones: the theatre’s 35th anniversary and the 80th birthday of its artistic director, Shaul Tiktiner.

35 years on stage. Thousands of performances. Dozens of productions. Cities throughout the country. Several generations of audiences.

In this anniversary year, the Israel Youth Theatre presents not merely a new premiere, but a play that poses a question—about a time when the world increasingly resembles a circus, people grow accustomed to wearing masks, and being genuine becomes almost an act of heroism.

Sometimes the world begins to resemble a circus.

Everyone plays roles. They put on masks. They laugh when they want to remain silent. They remain silent when they want to scream. And gradually, they become accustomed to living as though being genuine were already indecent.

In such a world, a person who does not betray themselves seems strange.

Someone who still believes seems ridiculous.

Someone who speaks the truth is inconvenient.

Someone who goes against the general noise seems almost insane.

Where Are You, Don Quixote? is not a retelling of the story of a knight from the past.

It is a play about a person who refused to be “normal” in an abnormal world.

About the fragile boundary between the funny and the great.

Between madness and remaining true to oneself.

Between the mask the world places on us and the face we are afraid to lose.

Here, Don Quixote is not merely a hero on stage.

He is the part of us that still remembers what it means to believe, not betray ourselves, and remain genuine even when people laugh at us for it.

And when the lights go out, the question “Where are you, Don Quixote?” will remain with every spectator.

Where is he—my Don Quixote? And is he still alive within me?

Playwright, director, and set designer: Shaul Tiktiner
Designers: Oleg Firer, Alexey Babushkin, Marina Koger
Composer: Sergei Delyatitsky
Music editor: Diana Fleier
Choreographer: Galina Delyatitskaya
Lighting designer: Alexander Novikov

Cast: Igor Miroshnichenko, Boris Plaksin, Maksim Krylov, Diana Fleier, Vika Kabramova, Nikita Rozenfeld, Evgenia Itin, Remi Braginskaya, Shira Zhukova, Eitan Kopilevich

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