A site-specific, multi-disciplinary traveling adventure
through Cervantes’ fantastical world of delusion and knight-errantry

Thursday through Sunday,
June 10-27, 2004
Thurs & Fri at 7pm; Sat & Sun at 5pm and 7pm

$25 ADMISSION
run time: 3hrs 15 min., includes tapas & sangria

The Merchants Square Building
40 Worth Street, 13th Floor
(between Church & West Broadway, Lower Manhattan)

Reservations required 212 529 3626, ext. 1 for building security

Made possible in part with generous support from Newmark & Company Real Estate, Inc.; Instituto Cervantes;
Hispanic Society of America; and Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Join us for a special OPENING NIGHT performance and party
Saturday, June 12th at 7pm
Celebrate with the artists after the show courtesy of Instituto Cervantes
Tickets $50 Call: 212 529 3626 x1 or order online
but first, get the primer...
In Praise of Folly: A Don Quixote Tribute
Adventures in Translation, Theatre and Music

Thursday, June 3rd at 6pm

Instituto Cervantes hosts an in-depth DQ dialogue in their beautiful new home. Artists and scholars discuss the challenges of interpreting Cervantes’ epic novel. Join us afterward in the garden for a cocktail reception and sample Folly performances. In English, with simultaneous Spanish translation.

On the panel:
Edith Grossman, translator of the acclaimed new edition of Don Quixote
Marion Peter Holt, CUNY Professor, Theater Critic and Translator
Antoni Pizà, Director of the Foundation for Iberian Music
Catherine Porter, In Praise of Folly project leader

Instituto Cervantes at Amster Yard
211-15 East 49th Street (between 2nd & 3rd Ave.)
Reservations required: 212-308-7720 x 113 or e-mail cultny@cervantes.es
This 3-year exploration was made possible through HERE’s Artist Residency Program (HARP), 2001-2004, NYC; and has been financially supported in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts and NYC’s Department of Cultural Affairs; and with private funds from the Puffin Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts’ Richard Bartee Opportunity Grant, the Nancy Quinn Fund, and The Katherine Dalglish Foundation.
In searching for the right venue, we considered over 100 possible spaces. We found over 30,000 sq. ft. on the 13th floor of a building in the downtown Manhattan neighborhood of Tribeca. This Folly would not be possible without the generous donation of vacant office space by Jeffrey Gural of Newmark & Company Real Estate.

SUBWAY:
1/9 to Franklin Street
A/C to Chambers Street

BUS:
M20 to West Broadway & Worth

© 2004 Peculiar Works Project