Quijotes y Sanchos (Travesía Audioguiada)

Quijotes y Sanchos will be in your choice of Spanish or English

Quijotes y Sanchos is a self-guided tour of Los Angeles. The experience begins at home, as participants receive their instructions through the free online messaging application TELEGRAM. We invite you to see your own space through the eyes of Don Quijote and Sancho, to relive the events of the novel, and to cross the city as though it were the Spain of 1604… or the Tokyo of the late 20th century. Quijotes y Sanchos turns your place and your city into the backdrop, you into the protagonist, and the rest of the world into the ideal cast for your journey. We will get you ready to walk a new world, and to become someone else for a morning. You will decide on your own route, your own personal and intimate wandering through Los Angeles. 

Cervantes’ Don Quijote is the most important novel in Spanish literature, and the text most often translated and published, after the Bible. Yet how many of us have actually read it? Not a problem—you don’t need to know what happens. We focus on Part I, published in 1605, emphasizing the way the novel works on us, and the questions Cervantes asks, which are now our own: What does it mean to be Quijote or Sancho today? What is my actual identity, and who else could I be? What does it mean to walk alongside someone, and how do I do that? What is this world we traverse, and how can our gaze change it, as change feels ever more urgent?

This is our company’s response to these times of uncertainty and fear, to our need to be out on the street, to meet again. Quijotes y Sanchos comes from the devising Spanish company [los números imaginarios] and producers Bella Batalla, specializing in immersive theater. We promise to be back in ten years’ time with Part II, just as Cervantes did. In the prologue to Don Quijote, Cervantes asks a friend: “How to fill the vacuum of my fear? How to bring clarity to the chaos of my confusion?” To which we say: keep walking. 

Running Time: 2-2.5 hrs (no incluye desplazamientos por Los Ángeles)
Content Advisory: Ages 18+

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsu1awicboQ