Snow White and Me
Mêstské Divadlo Brno
Premiered at the Theatre Brno, Czech Republic on 29th January 2022
Book and Lyrics: Philip LaZebnik, Ronald Kruschak
Music: Pippa Cleary
Director: Stanislav Slovák
We Are All Knights
The set design by Christoph Weyers meets all the requirements needed to establish a universality. The forest created by Weyers is truly one of fantasy – not one of Bohemia’s forests, or Canada’s, or Norway’s, or Africa’s or South America’s, but a real fairytale forest. Some of the vegetation is indeed reminiscent of flesh-eating plants, but that’s mere speculation. Weyers has fully utilised the concept of the book – after all, it is a story we are telling. The book forms a part of the proscenium and in the finale it also appears in the projection. The last page is closed and a red bookmark indicates where we have finished. The bookmark is then drawn across the stage into the auditorium as if an imaginary red flying carpet, and all the characters are celebrated heroes, so let them enjoy their fame. Or maybe it’s a red mortal thread, whichever way you wish to interpret it….each one of us writes our own story and this is reflected in every aspect of the set and scenery: the queen’s chamber, the fairytale forest, the gingerbread house, the hiding place in the woods, the queen’s castle. There is also the subtlety of the projections….
31st January 2022 Josef Meszaros SCENA.CZ
Snow White and Me – and All Those Of Us Who Love Fairytales
Snow White and Me is a superb production that takes full advantage of all the technical possibilities a large modern stage has to offer. The magnificent set design, the stone buildings as well as the mighty trees in fantastical shapes, is the work of the experienced and sure-handed production designer Christoph Weyers.
2nd February 2022 Z-KULTURY
Each Writing Their Own Path Through Life
…the staging of the new musical is a great success. Christoph Weyers has designed the entire production to be like an open book of fairtytales. This motif is found again and again throughout the production design.
15th February 2022 Lukas Dubsky i-divaldo