Schneewittchen und die 77 Zwerge

Snow White is a thorn in the queen’s side. While she worries about her perfect appearance day in, day out, the beautiful girl has to spend her days practising her writing. But everything changes when Snow White makes a friend for life in the form of the human-sized, tap-dancing magic rabbit Richard III. She saves Richard from the cooking pot, and he does not leave her side when Snow White’s stepmother orders the child to be shot by the huntsman Müller. In the forest, behind the 77 mountains with the 77 dwarves, the clumsy girl and her rabbit friend finally find asylum, but not even here are they safe from the queen, because the all-knowing mirror on the wall has betrayed them, and so the evil queen appears at the 77 dwarves’ front door as a tempting representative of innovative household appliances and demands to be let in …
Of course there is a happy ending, a loving prince, a rescued Snow White and an evil queen who is left to be judged fairly by an independent judiciary. The successful duo Susanne Felicitas Wolf and the Uzbek-Australian composer Elena Kats-Chernin have taken the fairy tale for what it is: a story of possibility. Wolf and Kats-Chernin explore the possibilities of the Brothers Grimm’s original for young people in the present day in a pointed and imaginatively funny way. At the same time, they do not forget to delight adults with small
parodic references to their world.