Studio Hrdinů / Robert Walser, Elfriede Jelinek – The Snow White

Venue: NKP Důl Hlubina – New Bathrooms (Nové koupelny)
Time: 17:00
Length: 70 min
Admission: 200 CZK / 100 CZK (students)

author: Robert Walser, Elfriede Jelinek
director: Kai Ohrem
dramaturgy: Jan Horák
translation Robert Walser: Vladimír Tomeš
translation Elfriede Jelinek: Barbora Schnelle

cast: Ivana Uhlířová, Marta Vítů, Jiří Kniha, Kamil Švejda, Anna Brabcová, Evženie Nízká, Tomáš Fabera, Laďka Čížková, Tomáš Štolba, Alexandr Puškin, Petr Miklovič, Maxim Kratochvíl, Alžběta Nováková, Pavel Širmer,Zbyněk Vašíček, Martin Kříž, Pavel Jánský

Robert Walser’s (post)fairy-tale drama Snow White deconstructs the comprehensive fantasies of reconciliation that lead to collective suppression of the trauma of Snow White, the Huntsman, and the Queen. The poisoned apple and the seven dwarfs imply a distant history, which is easy to call into question. With respect to form, Walser’s text is very specific and its poetry is difficult to translate into Czech. At the same time, its almost psychoanalytic dimension of the concept of the Snow White story as a “healing” ritual makes it modern. Walser’s reconciliation is then destroyed by a radical deconstruction of the fairy- tale as introduced by Elfriede Jelinek. Her fairy-tale is stylized as a philosophical discourse between a Heideggerian Huntsman and an emancipated Snow White.