Crazy-foolish-comic-disruptive-and-also-with-singing-and-other-sound! “That’s how Patrick van Deurzen announces Mancha Mancha with some self-mockery. It is his first music theatre work. The libretto by Dutch author Ernest van der Kwast is based on Cervantes’ well-known book about the ingenious nobleman Don Quixote of La Mancha and his squire Sancho Panza. The wandering knight with an overdose of fantasy still appeals to the imagination.
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