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Not Quichot

Het Zuidelijk Toneel
Fri 19 Dec 20:00 - 22:10
Fri 19 Dec 2025
20:00 - 22:10
  • Fri 19 Dec 2025
    20:00 - 22:10
    Patatje met
    Koninklijke Schouwburg, Den Haag
    Main hall
    Tickets

Everyone is going crazy in this world. Yep, you too. No one knows really what is real and what is delusion anymore. Survival is a happy accident rather than the result of deliberate handling. In other words, we are all the foolish hero with good intentions Don Quichot. Or not?

How much madness can you cover in one performance? How many improbable events can you justify in your own head? In Not Quichot, six storytellers commemorate their good friend Q, but who was Q’s bést friend? Through tall stories, they take you on their adventures with Q across the whole and half of Europe, through the mountains, forests, past farmer protests and burning libraries.

No other duo than writer Joachim Robbrecht and director Sarah Moeremans can so classily crash a classic like Don Quichot into a wall only to take the strongest elements from between the debris.

Good to know

  • The performance is Dutch spoken and features English surtitles – these are best readable from a bit farther away or from one of the balconies
  • The performance makes use of both stroboscopic and bright lights

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TROUW
“Comical and juicy entertainment, with dramatic plot twists!”

NRC
“What is truth? Not Quichot invites you to philosophize about ‘the meaning of fiction’ in a tasty and witty way.”

DE VOLKSKRANT
“Director Sarah Moeremans repeatedly makes the audience laugh loudly and exuberantly.

BRABANT CULTUREEL
“The enthusiasm and fun just oozes out of it.”

ETCETERA
“Behind the theatrical images of Not Quichot lies a political reality that, through questions about truth and fiction, exposes a disease of our time.”

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Welcome to all our internationals and Anglophiles! Our No Dutch Required selection lists performances that are either English spoken, have English surtitles or that are without spoken text altogether.

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Credits

regie Sarah Moeremans | tekst & dramaturgie Joachim Robbrecht | tekst Artun Alaska Arasli | spel Alicia Boedhoe, Joep van der Geest, Julia Ghysels, Gillis Biesheuvel, Keja Klaasje Kwestro en Louis van der Waal | vormgeving Ruimtetijd - Theun Mosk | kostuumontwerp Daphne de Winkel | geluidsontwerp Timo Merkies | lichtontwerp Stan Bannier | regieassistentie Simon Kleinhesselink | techniek Emile van Gils, Arco Middendorp & Tom IJpelaar | kostuum Ilse Vermeulen, Marieke Hendriks  | productie Rianne Valstar | fotografie Sofie Knijff | videografie Joris Verleg

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