Anatole wants to save Fric, who was mistakenly sent into space. They visit the Moon, Venus, the planet of Dame Tartine (Lady Toast), and that of the Père Noël (Father Christmas). Their trip ends in the pot of the Peaux-Rouges (Redskins), but a clever idea from the Chat Tempête (Storm Cat) saves them.

String marionette

Young audiences

Blin André

France

Montrouge

Typed or electronic text with handwritten annotations

Milky Way

Astronaut

Telescope

Star

Comet

Rescue

Cannibalism

Helicopter

Red Indian

Christmas

Comical

Fantasy

Company Les P'tits Bonshommes d'André Blin (André Blin’s Little Men), Les Aventuriers du ciel, 1955.

French

Servant

Shepherd

Father Christmas

Père Fouettard

Fairy

Dwarf

Page

Dame Tartine

Snow White

Aladin

Little Red Riding Hood

Little Mermaid

Caricature

Unexpected turn of events

Ballet

Pantomime

Warning signs

Les Aventuriers du ciel

The Adventurers of the sky

The princess escapes to the moon by walking on a ray of moonlight. Her father, King Cyprian XIII, promises a reward for he who can bring her back to earth. Kasperl and Seppl volunteer and leave on a rocket. They find the princess miserable, forced to cook and clean for the Man on the Moon. Thanks to a trap, Kasperl and Seppl succeed in escaping with the princess. The king thanks Kasperl and wants to offer him a gift, but Kasperl is content with a piggybank—he had to break his own to buy the rocket.

Glove-puppet

Bertl Hayde (Berta Gründler-Hetmanek)

Austria

Vienna

Printed

Misfortune

Disillusionment

Tale

Gugelhupf

Birthday

Kitchen

Women's condition

Exploitation

German

Ein Handpuppenspiel für zwei Spieler

Kasperl

Seppl

Inhabitants on the moon

Trumpet (military man/woman)

Town crier

Night watchman

Metatheatre

Improvised scene

Dialogue with the audience

Address to the public

Flying machine

Disguised character (false identity)

Trap

Aria

Die Fahrt auf den Mond

Le voyage sur la Lune

The Moon Man finds himself on Earth after having secretly travelled in the astronauts' rocket returning from a mission to his planet. He meets Kasperl's grandmother, whom he asks to take control of the rocket to take him back to the moon. When Kasperl and Seppl notice that he is missing, they fly to his rescue in another rocket. The Moon Man wants the grandmother to stay with him all the time to cook for him, which she refuses. When they arrive on the Moon, Kasperl and Seppl trick the Moon Man into thinking they are Moon Calves and then blind him with the light of a torch. Kasperl, Seppl and the grandmother all flee with the rockets, leaving the Moon Man relieved to be alone.

Les Aventuriers du ciel

Die Fahrt auf den Mond

Ein Handpuppenspiel für zwei Spieler

Kasperl und der Mann vom Mond

Ein Kasperlstück