Snow White for Suckers

**Snow White for Suckers**
**Opening 5/3-1999**
Playwrights Director Harry Harry Music Music arr. Musical study Dolls Choreography in the Deathscene Choreography in the Princes-scene Scenography and Props Costume Graphic design Photo Production Scene	Micke Klingvall and the Ensemble Micke Klingvall Elias Wåhlund Dov Weinstein Dov Weinstein and Pjotr Tjajkovskij Carola Alfredsson and Andreas Hedberg Inger Lindholm Carina Söe-Knutsen Michael Mansson Susanna Stjernfeldt Carina Söe-Knutsen Gaysha - Miki Nagata and Niklas Jensen Micke Jakobsson John Hansson Olav Karlsson Salong Katakomb

"Snow White for Suckers" is about the two swindlers Harry and Harry, who came up with the perfect cheat. They will trick the audience to come and see a production of Snow White that does not exist, and than they plan to run away with the money. But on their way tu run away with the money, they walk though the wrong door and end up on the stage in front of the expectant audience. Harry and Harry become forced to play Snow White as well as they can.
Or as Harry thought about the performance in an review that he wrote himself:

Provoking hollowness makes Snow White for Suckers one of this milleniums most challenging performances Snow White for Suckers really makes use of Peter Brook’s expression“the empty space” in it’s full meaning, with it’s elevated, almost sublime, hollowness. The expressionless characters are almost not seen, which show’s the dishonesty of life.
The play debates – together with Lars Norén and others in Sweden– what is theater and what is real life. The audience is challenged to use it’s inner eye to fill the stage with it’s own visions and illusions. And the piece raises questions like: What is art? Do we really see each other? and Where do we go from here?
Snow White for Suckers is totally free from bad acting, long and boring monologues about people who can’t communicate or pseudo-intellectual political manifestations
And I left the theatre with one big question in my head: What is the price of it all?
H.H.

"Snow White for Suckers" is Kompani Komedi's forth production, and the performance is played in the spirit of Kompani Komedi. With "Snow White for Suckers" it is true that we have made an exception and are not doing a pure Commedia dell´Arte-performance. On the other hand, that is where we have got most of our inspiration for the performance. With this performance we have taken off the masks, moved in time and worked with a fairytale, instead of a scenario.

Snow White for Suckers" is a part in the search for our role in modern western comedy, based on Commedia dell´Arte.
We are also continuing- in the spirit of Kompani Komedi-to work from our love of crazy pranks and burlesque humour, in our expressive style of playing, with lots of acrobatics and other theatrical disciplines. This time we have not only worked with acrobatics and music, but we have also worked with dance and puppetry in the show.

Before "Snow White for Suckers" Kompani Komedi welcomed the arrival of the american actor Dov Weinstein, a guest artist in Kompani Komedi. He and Elias Wåhlund met at Antonio Fava's Commedia dell´Arte-workshop in Reggio Emilia, and later they went to Accademia del Circo in Italy toghter. It was also there the ideas for "Snow White for Suckers " first took form (and through lots of telefone calls to Micke Klingvall who were working on it home in Sweden).