- directed by: Konrad Dworakowski
- translation: Walenty Zakrzewski
- adaptation: Martyna Lechman
- scenography: Andrzej Dworakowski
- music and arrangements: Tomasz Lewandowski
cast:
- Dagmara Sowa
- Joanna Chmielecka
- Sylwia Koronczewska - Cyris
- Kacper Lorens
- Paweł Chomczyk
- Marcin Ryl - Krystianowski
- Adam Jełowicki
- Konrad Dworakowski
Dearest Dulcinea, Forgive me! I am writing this letter to you knowing that you cannot answer me. However, please don't be angry. I couldn't come today. Many adventures stopped me. We knights errant fight a lot and then our chivalrous dream comes to us. You are also in this dream, only of course much bigger and even more beautiful. When we wake up in the morning, we like to laze around a bit. Writing this letter I am just basking in the warm sand of La Mancha and I am constantly thinking about you. I kiss your gentle hands. See you later! I am leaving soon. I will be with you tomorrow. Your D. K.
Don Kichot 2.0 is a performance with a non-obvious and varied language. His form tries to reconcile the spirit of the knight tale of Cervantes and the experience of contemporary theater with his inclination to comment on the current socio-political and historical situation. Through live music, puppetry and drama theater, it combines distant aesthetic concepts in order to find a common denominator in the cluttered reality that surrounds us. Therefore, we are dealing with a musical and visual event where the classic hero becomes a medium subjected to experiment. We are interested in todays Don Kichote interpretations and contexts? What reality would he reflect, what would we see in his mirror through our reflection? We are trying to think about how his vision of the world would motivate and determine our actions. Don Kichot openly calls Dulcinea „an idea created according to his own vision of the world”. We do not know the answer to the question of what is our Dulcinea. In this journey, we want to be Sancho Panza curiously watching what will result from this year's meeting with Don Kichot 2.0. The performance has an open formula, ready to ask this question every year.
Awards, distinctions, nominations
XXIX National Festival of Puppet Theaters in Opole
- Award for directing — Konrad Dworakowski
- Acting award for the role of Don Kichote — Paweł Chomczyk
- Distinction for the stage design — Andrzej Dworakowski
- Actor's distinction for the role of Sancho Pansa — Łukasz Batko
Golden Mask (award of Łódź reviewers for theater people) for the best performance of the 2018/2019 season in puppet theaters
XXVI International Puppet Theaters Festival "Spotkania" in Toruń
- GRAND PRIX ot the 26th IPTF "Spotkania” for the Coincidentia Group and the Pinokio Theater in Łódź for the performance of "Don Kichote"
- Award for the best direction for Konrad Dworakowski
- Award for the best stage design for Andrzej Dworakowski
- Award for the best male role for Paweł Chomczyk
Energy of Culture 2018
- Nomination for the most important Łódź event of the year
Culture Patches (Plastry Kultury) 2018
- Nomination of journalists on plasterlodzki.pl in the category "Theater event of the year"
Performances
- Ubu the King
- Superheroes
- Invisible
- Bezbrzeża / Küstenlos
- The wall with a view
- The Year of the Metal Rat
- Kukułka
- Don Kichot 2.0
- Straszka pospolita
- The Monstrum Band
- Made in Heaven
- faza REM phase
- The Elephant and the Flower
- Krwawa jatka
- Concert for cor, drum and viola
- Krabat
- Floorless
- Murdas. The Tale
- Turandot
- The Third Name of a Cat
- Szopka