“You enter the theatre and, a few hours later, you leave as if from a peculiar sleep.” Author of one of the most unique works of the 20th century, Robert Walser created novels, short stories, essays, poems, micrograms and dramolettes, which are original and provocative texts for theatre that turn traditional notions of fairy tales upside down. Seven years later, Nuno Carinhas returns to the TNSJ to stage a home production and confront these characters created by a writer whom Walter Benjamin characterised as “a lazybones, a vagrant and a genius”.