Skirted hobby horse

Niccolini Francesco

Malézieu Nicolas de

Willems Paul

Hoke Werner

Gloved hand

Molins Manuel

Since 2019, the Musée des Arts de la Marionnette (MAM) has been collaborating with the Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 and the team of Didier Plassard, professor and head of the PuppetPlays European research programme. 
As part of this project, the MAM - Gadagne documentation centre has made its collection of Guignol repertoires available for digitisation, analysis and distribution on the Puppetplays online platform.
The most popular Guignol plays are comedies such as Le Déménagement, Les Frères Koch and Le Pot de confiture. But other genres have also contributed to the puppet's success, including fairy tales, military plays and parodies. 
The lectures and readings on this day aim to show the huge variety of these shows, the diversity of their audiences and the contexts in which they were performed. The recent discovery of manuscripts performed by puppeteers from Lyon in Paris between 1866 and 1868 will also provide an opportunity to reflect on the language of Guignol and its evolution.
PuppetPlays is a research project funded by the European Union as part of its Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, under Grant Agreement 835193.

Ponctuation 5 - La Pépie

<p>During the prologue, a traffic policeman expresses his boredom to the children in the audience. Kasper arrives and, at the request of the policeman, decides to tell a story, the one depicted in the play. The robot dwarf CR 93, known as Blinky, came from the Milky Way and wanted to take part in a rally on the planet Mars, but a computer error caused him to land in Kasper's town. His on-board computer has to be repaired quickly as his battery is almost empty. Carelessly crossing the street, Blinky is saved by Gretl and the Policeman. While Kasper, Gretl and the Policeman teach Blinky how to cross the street safely, the brigand Atze tries to steal the battery to sell it at the flea market, but Kasper and his friends get Atze arrested, fix the computer and even allow the robot nicknamed "Blinki" to exchange a few last words with an emergency call station the Martian has fallen in love with, before the latter leaves.</p>

Klusen Peter

Germany

Ein Kasperlespiel nicht nur zur Verkehrserziehung

Besuch aus dem Weltraum

Accidental murder

Angel

Anthropophagy

Antisemitism

Automate

Burial

Carriage

Cauldron

Donkey

East

Europe

Flowers

Kettle

Perfection

Quiproquo

Sorcery

Swing

Theatre at school

Trinity

Vanity

Biblioteca comunale dell'archiginnasio

Huma-Num

IdRef

Isidore

Jagiellonian Library

Münchner Stadtmuseum

Musée de la Vie Wallonne

Musée des Arts de la Marionnette - Gadagne

Nakala

Pôle International de la Marionnette – Jacques Félix

Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

Université Haute Alsace

<p>Casperl gets drunk with the hunter Thomerl and Thomerl offers to put Casperl’s wife Grethl to the test: Casperl has to fake an illness that will lead to his death, and Thomerl, disguised as a doctor, will come and certify the death. As soon as Casperl is pronounced dead, Grethl tries to console herself in the arms of Lieutenant Pulvermann. The fake dead man is resurrected, a fight ensues in which Pulvermann is killed and the corpse is taken backstage. A police officer comes to seize Casperl, but husband and wife join forces against the impetuous man, who is forced to give in to the violence. To celebrate their reconciliation, Casperl and Grethl go to the inn, where they also meet with Thomerl.</p>

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