Quest For Don Quixote at Main Street Theatre Works - Mark Brown

Don Quixote Rides Again In The Quest For Don Quixote

My show The Quest For Don Quixote is being produced by the Main Street Theatre Works in Jackson, CA. I’m honored to be part of their 20th anniversary at the Kennedy Mine Amphitheatre.

The show is directed by Allen Pontes, who directed my show Around the World in 80 Days at Main Street Theatre back in 2009.

The cast includes:

Blair Leatherwood as Ben, the playwright. (I can’t even lie and say the role is loosely based on me. It’s pretty much completely me)

Ken Nitschke at Don Quixote

Paul Fearn as Jeffry (completely based on my old manager Jeffry Melnick, RIP)

Kevin Menager as Sancho Panza

Lisa Derthick, who plays about 9 different characters

Donna-Lisa Otto, who plays about 8 different characters

Here’s a bit about the show from the press release:

“The Quest for Don Quixote is a hilarious retelling of The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha, but with this adaptation beginning in a Starbucks. Playwright Ben Eisenberg is feverishly working on his stage adaptation of Don Quixote, with rehearsals starting tomorrow. But there’s one big problem ~ he hasn’t written a single word. With help/pressure from his agent and a possible near-lethal dose of caffeine and Xanax, Starbucks transforms, with patrons becoming characters in the rapidly developing story. With windmills, horses, and demons, this fast-paced comedy is sure to keep the audience on the edge of their camp chairs.”