Shakespeare-appointed Supreme Court rules on the insanity of impossible dreams

By Tim Treanor for DC Theatre Scene.com, 12 May 2015

So you run your lance full-bore at windmills, recruit a barber in your fight against the muleteers, believe a local prostitute to be your damsel of grace, and then fall into a coma. Should someone be appointed to take care of you? What will the Supreme Mock Court – the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s traditional gathering of Washington high-court Judges charged with deciding the great issues of theater and literature – say about you?

Are you kidding? This is Washington, baby. Delusional thinking is our bread and butter.

The Family Court of La Mancha saw it differently, appointing Antonia, the niece of Alonso Quijana (a/k/a Don Quixote), as the old man’s guardian, based principally on the expert testimony of Dr. Sanson Carrasco – who happens to be Antonia’s fiancée.

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