Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

Characters:

• Don Quixote

• Sancho Panza

• Dulcinea (a kid playing Quixote's imagined lady love)

• Narrator

Narrator: A long time ago in Spain, there lived an old gentleman named Alonso Quixano. He read so many books about brave knights and their daring adventures that he lost his mind and decided to become a knight-errant himself, renaming himself "Don Quixote de la Mancha"!

(Don Quixote enters, riding a broom like a horse)

Don Quixote: Hear ye, hear ye! I am the valorous Don Quixote, protector of the good and scourge of the evil! Who dares face me?

Sancho: (running in) Not me, sir! I'm just Sancho, the humble servant you hired to be your loyal squire.

Don Quixote: Ah yes, good Sancho. We must find adventure so I can prove my bravery and skill! Look, over there - a fair maiden in distress!

(Dulcinea stands looking bored)

Dulcinea: Huh? I'm just waiting for my mom.

Don Quixote: Fear not, my perfect lady Dulcinea! I shall vanquish any monster or foul knight that threatens you! Have at thee, giant windmills!

(He starts batting at the air with a cardboard tube "sword." Sancho tries to calm him)

Sancho: But master, those are just windmills, not giants!

Narrator: And so the brave but confused knight Don Quixote set out to protect the innocent and right all wrongs, seeing heroic quests in even the most ordinary events. Would he ever see the world as it truly is? Who knows what other misadventures awaited him and his loyal squire Sancho Panza?

The End