The Man of La Mancha
A warehouse-inspired found-object environment for Man of La Mancha, letting imagination emerge from raw material, live transformation, and a central ritual playing space.
- Year
- 2022
- Company
- Lake Dillon Theatre Company
- Project
- Musical Theatre
- Location
- Silverthorne, CO
I did not want The Man of La Mancha to live in a picturesque Spain. At Lake Dillon Theatre Company, the director and I talked early about the story existing inside a warehouse, a space where actors could assemble the world in front of us.
Brick walls, exposed piping, and a steel stair structure grounded the room in an honest industrial vocabulary. A circular pattern cut into the floor created a playing arena that felt part ritual space and part proving ground.
The windmill, traced in industrial pipe, was never meant to feel literal. It worked more like an idea projected onto the room, allowing imagination and harsh reality to occupy the same space as the performers built the story in real time.
Creative team
- Written by
- Dale Wasserman
- Music by
- Mitch Leigh
- Director
- Christopher Alleman
- Choreographer
- Rachel Leigh Dolan
- Music Director
- Len Rhodes
- Scenic Design
- Brandon PT Davis
- Costume Design
- Shivanna Sooknanan
- Lighting Design
- Kenrick Fischer
- Sound Design
- Matthew Eckstein
- Lyrics by
- Joe Darion
Million Dollar Quartet
The Merry Wives of Windsor Cove
The Glass Menagerie
Bell, Book, and Candle
Head Over Heels
Romeo & Juliet
Much Ado About Nothing
¡LOTERIA: GAME ON!
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Romero
Urinetown
An Inspector Calls
All's Well That Ends Well
Little Shop of Horrors
Tomás and the Library Lady
The Penelopiad
Company
American Idiot
Parliament Square
An Enemy of the People
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Boeing, Boeing
The Bald Soprano
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
The Man of La Mancha
Dial “M” for Murder
All My Sons
Last Train to Nibroc
Rich Girl