Man of La Mancha March 4, 2011

Miguel de Cervantes, aging and an utter failure in his varied careers as playwright, poet and tax collector for the government, has been thrown into a dungeon in Seville to await trial by the Inquisition for an offense against the Church. There he is hailed before a court of his fellow prisoners; thieves, cutthroats and trollops who propose to confiscate his meager possessions, one of which is the uncompleted manuscript of a novel called 'Don Quixote.' Cervantes, seeking to save it, proposes to offer a novel defense in the form of an entertainment.