Comic performance with Henk Neven and Mattijs van de Woerd, the two best baritones in the Netherlands and Hans Eijsackers and Maarten van Veen, the two best pianists in our country.

Mancha Mancha is an evening out, with a dazzling contemporary setting of the well-known story. We enter a completely failed rehearsal setting in which no one wants to perform anything anymore. There is classical music, a good dose of contemporary music and everyday absurd themes from commercials to a self-made ‘rap’… The ingredients make the performance a hilarious one-act play not to be missed.

Story: Don Quixote is back! After the knight-errant goes to battle against injustice in the world in part I (1605) and dies after numerous adventures in part II (1615), he rises from the dead in part III: “Mancha Mancha!” (2022). Only as an absolute grump. The idealist Don Quixote has become completely frustrated. He appears on the scene exhausted, disillusioned and bitter. He’s had it all. Education, healthcare, the banking system, sustainable energy, contemporary classical music — it all ended in failure according to the Don.

Together with his sidekick Sancho Panza, he comments on today’s consumer society and longs for the bygone days when he traveled the world like a knight to right wrongs. He is too old, too tired and too grumpy for that now. All he can do is cancer. To politicians, to farmers, to managers, to audiences that really only want to hear songs by Schubert. “Mancha Mancha!” is crazy musical theater about a man who has lost all his ideals, and maybe his mind too. At the same time, the conventions that apply in concert halls are roughly broken down, and play and reality run wild with each other. And it’s also about love. Oh Dulcinea!