“The great novel has never been in better hands.” –Edith Grossman, Translator
Join us for a performance of The Traveling Serialized Adventures of Kid Quixote, an original adaptation of Don Quixote by the children of Brooklyn-based writing program Still Waters in a Storm! Alongside Stephen Haff YSD’92 and composer Kim Sherman, the program’s children ages 5-17 have translated Cervantes’s original Spanish text and reimagined Don Quixote, a 16th-century old man, as a group of Spanish-speaking immigrant children in contemporary New York much like themselves. This bilingual play considers translation in its many forms—between languages, art forms, geographies, and histories—as the children negotiate their daily lives alongside the destabilizing forces of contemporary politics.
Saturday, February 23rd at 2pm, Whitney Humanities Center Room 208
The show runs 1 hour, and there will be a talkback with the writer-performers and Stephen Haff YSD’92 to follow
For more, the New York Times piece on the program here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/23/opinion/sunday/the-littlest-don-quixotes-versus-the-world.html
And on Still Water’s in Valeria Luiselli’s upcoming book Lost Children Archive:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/07/arts/valeria-luiselli-lost-children-archive.html
registration required! RSVP constance.pascarella@yale.edu
Hope to see you there!