Santa Fe Events

Theater
Winter 2012

Man of La Mancha

Performance by the St. John’s College community
Saturday, March 3, 8 p.m., Sunday March 4, 3 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Great Hall, Peterson Student Center
$10 admission at the door, free for St. John’s students, faculty, and staff

Man of La Mancha, with book by Dale Wasserman, lyrics by Joe Darion, and music by Mitch Leigh, is inspired by Miguel de Cervantes's seventeenth century masterpiece Don Quixote. It tells the story of the "mad" knight as a musical play-within-a-play performed by Cervantes and his fellow prisoners as he awaits a hearing with the Spanish Inquisition.

Quixote’s dream is Everyman's dream. His tilting at windmills is Everyman's great adventure. As with all the best allegorical tales, the oppressive mood of the fight against eternal evil is heightened by the sometimes comic, sometimes dramatic attempts of the hero to right all the wrongs of the world. At times both inspiring and thought-provoking, the story is both very entertaining and very moving, and will warm the hearts of everyone whose spirits were ever raised by the prospect of a victory by the underdog against all the odds.

The musical is performed by a cast of St. John’s students, faculty and staff and is directed by Artist-in-Residence Roy Rogosin.

View photos from the 2009 Student Theater Production: A Streetcar Named Desire