Catastrophic Theatre Presents World Premiere of Experimental Adaptation of SNOW WHITE

Snow White is tired of being "just a horsewife" to Bill, Dan, Edward, Hubert, Henry, Clem and Kevin, who, in her estimation, "only add up to the equivalent of about two real men." While the seven men toil in commercial real estate and manufacture exotic high-end baby foods, she whiles away her days reading Mao Tse-tung, drinking vodka with orange juice, and impatiently waiting for the prince promised to her by history.

This world premiere production of Snow White is a theatrical adaptation of the groundbreaking, experimental novel by the iconic, postmodern novelist, poet, and early faculty member of the University of Houston Creative Writing Program, the late Donald Barthelme. He began adapting Snow White for the stage in 1974, and a reading of his script was presented in 1976. The project was abandoned after that, but a version of the play was published in 1992, at the end of The Teachings of Don. B. In 1996, the Alley Theatre presented a private staged reading of the play. Working from Barthelme's original manuscript, notes and revisions, as well as the novel itself, Catastrophic Theatre will finally present the world premiere of Donald Barthelme's Snow White to the public.

Snow White is produced in association with the Barthelme Estate, Brazos Bookstore, Inprint, University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, CounterCurrent17 and features cast and crew from the UH School of Theatre and Dance.

As with every Catastrophic Theatre production all tickets are available on a sliding scale according to what each audience member can afford. As it has been for years now, everyone is welcome regardless of ability to pay and no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

About Donald Barthelme

Donald Barthelme (1931-1989) p ublished twelve books, including two novels and a prize-winning children's book. He was a regular contributor to The New Yorker and divided his time between New York and Houston, where he taught creative writing at the University of Houston. Writing in Life magazine, Webster Schott called Barthelme "the most perversely gifted writer in the United States. . . . Snow White has everything, including William Burroughs cut ups, words posing as paintings, ribald social commentary, crazy esthetic experiments and comedy that smashes."

Barthelme was vitally important to the development of the Houston literary community. As one of the first faculty members at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program (UH CWP), Barthelme - a Houston native returning after many years and great artistic and critical success in New York - helped to attract some of the nation's top emerging and established writers to Houston. Renowned as a teacher and mentor, he was also instrumental in launching the Houston Reading Series (which became the Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series).

Snow White

by Donald Barthelme

April 7th - May 6th, 2017

Directed by Greg Dean

CounterCurrent17 performances: Thursday 4/20-Saturday 4/22

CounterCurrent17 Online Reservations Open 03/23/17!

All performances presented @

The MATCH, 3400 Main Street

Thursday, Friday and Saturday @ 8 pm

Starring

Coralee Young as Snow White

with

Noel Bowers, Greg Cote, Greg Dean, John Dunn, Luis Galindo, Bobby Haworth, Xavien Hollins, Courtney Lomelo,

Jeff Miller, Joel Orr, Charlie Scott and Abe Zapata

This world premiere production of Snow White is a theatrical adaptation of the groundbreaking, experimental novel by the postmodern novelist and poet Donald Barthelme.

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