Showcase Beat Le Mot are DON QUIJOTE / DONKEY SHOT / DONE QUICHE HOT / DON CONQUISTA / DON E. COYOTE When they had completed their armor and fastened it to their bodies with all sorts of makeshift aids they could find, they mounted their horse with difficulty and rode out into the midday heat. They rode about all day without coming across anything worthy of recounting for which they almost despaired as it was their only wish to come find an opportunity to test the bravery of their strong arm on someone. But all that could be investigated in this, and all that is written in the yearbooks of La Mancha is that they wandered about all day without finding even a single adventure. And that they almost died of hunger in the evening togehter with their horse.

Idea, realisation: Showcase Beat Le Mot / Music: Albrecht Kunze / English horn, performance: Friedemann Felger / Set design: Klara Lissy, Antonia Kamp, Showcase Beat Le Mot / Choreography: Tamara Saphir, Showcase Beat Le Mot / Costume design: Clemens Leander / Technical Director: Joscha Eckert / Assistant, Performance: Amelie Haller / Producion Management: Olaf Nachtwey / Showcase Beat Le Mot wish to thank: Johanna J. Thomas, Şenol Şentürk, Tania Mourinho, Hysterisches Globusgefühl, Sportgemeinschaft Handicap Berlin e.V.

Don Quijote is a production by Showcase Beat Le Mot with HAU Hebbel am Ufer. Funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe.

„What makes this company so special is the way they allow props, sounds, music and  above all the space itself to speak with their labyrinthian, enigmatic structures. Though „speak“ falls short: One would have to call their evenings ramified complex communications, in which they become entangled in sweaty battles with those strange constructs, objects and symbols they surround themselves with and invite the audience to observe them and join this puzzling experience ...“

(Berliner Zeitung, 29.1.2020,  Doris Meyerhenrich, "Futterstunde für Theatersatte" – translation SCBLM)