Pasqual, a schoolteacher from the village, teaches the cleaning lady Aldonza how to read. They read from Don Quixote and play out several chapters using everyday objects they find around them.

Actor and puppet

Shadow theatre

Object theatre

Young audiences

Spain

Cullera

Valencia

Electronic text

Adventure

Professor

Literacy class

Reading

School

Didactic

Dramatic

Parodistic

A scene from Puri Fariza and Pol Paul's show Les lettres de Quichotte (Quixote's letters)

Spanish

Cleaning lady

Teacher

Sancho Panza

Mistress

Niece

Blind

Metatheatre

Metamorphosis

Personified object

Theatre within the theatre

Theatrical lines used parodically

Las cartas del Quijote

Quixote's letters