Don Quixote

Premiere 24 January 2019 | Theatre Avoimet Ovet, Helsinki

Red Nose Company presents Don Quixote – the mother of all road trips. Actors Timo Ruuskanen and Tuukka Vasama have been working together as a clown duo since 2012. After years on tour, it was inevitable to let their clowns Mike & Zin become Don Quixote and Sancho Panza.

For centuries the adventures of Don Quixote have been in the very heart of European culture. The themes of the play – friendship, idealism, multi-cultural issues – seem to become more and more relevant in the world we live and love in.

Red Nose Company takes the audience on a journey through Europe. What do the wandering hot plains of La Mancha and the snowy, frozen tundra of Lapland have in common? Who is an immigrant? What is humanity, and what makes us all laugh? And, most importantly, what does a person do when facing injustices?

True virtuosity – the actors have the ability to be completely present and to juggle impulses. – Helsingin Sanomat
Outstanding, multi-layered, entertaining – Spectator
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ It’s warm-hearted, clever and very funny. Catch this professional and accomplished show – Three Weeks Edinburgh
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This double act is unmissable – West End Best Friend
⭐⭐⭐⭐ An impressively funny affair that is both very silly and very clever. – All Edinburgh Theatre

Don Quixote has been directed by Otso Kautto. Kautto is a Helsinki-based writer, an awarded theatre director and performing poet. In 2018 Kautto was elected director of TTT Theatre in Tampere, which is one of the three national main theatres in the country. He has directed both in big theatres as well as in small theatre groups, mostly at Theatre Quo Vadis and the Finnish National Theatre. He performs his poetry in the Poetry Band and is doing his PhD studies at the Theatre Academy where his research topic is sense of ritual.