The maître d’hôtel Rapinet (Polichenelle) offers to take Madame Flanchet and her daughter Margot, whom he wants to marry, to the fair. But Rudepogne reminds them that Margot is promised to his nephew Jacquot. He sends Jacquot, who threatens Rapinet and quarrels with Margot. Since it is already too late to go to the fair, Rapinet asks two Savoyards to perform curiosité shows for them. At the end of the play, the characters dance with “small Savoyard women”.

Rod and string marionette

Not specified

Carolet Denis

France

Paris

Printed

Curiosity

Lantern

Fairground Theatre

Rivalry in love

Unfaithfulness

Comical

L'Assemblée des poissardes, Soleinne collection, BnF

French

Polichinelle maître d'hôtel

Merchant (woman)

Polichinelle

Savoyard

Savoyard (woman)

Ballet

Argument

Comedy of language

Metadiscourse on puppet theatre

L'Assemblée des poissardes

The Meeting of the fishwives

On the advice of his companion Bluteck, the cruel knight Barbe-Bleue (Blaubart) decides to remarry for the seventh time and kidnaps Bertha, the eldest daughter of the rich Geldsack. The next day, Barbe-Bleue leaves the castle and gives Bertha all the keys, including the one to the secret cabinet, which he nevertheless forbids her to enter. But Bertha disobeys him and discovers the decapitated bodies of his previous wives. To punish her for her curiosity, Barbe-Bleue sentences her to death. She is saved by her former suitor Hugo von Hohenfels, who, with the help of the servant Kasperl, enters the castle and kills Barbe-Bleue.

Young audiences

Pocci Franz von

Germany

Munich

Cruelty

Bear

Hunting

Wedding

Romanticism

Knighthood

Young girl

Deafness

Kidnapping

Women's condition

Murder

Dramatic

Parodistic

German

Barbe-Bleue

Kasperl

Knight

Horseman

Monologue

Song

Disguise

Dance

Word for another

Talking at cross-purposes

Parody of formal language

Apparition of the Devil

Blaubart

Bluebeard

The Wiseman Weitschuss has built a rocket to go to Mars. When Kasperl messes with the buttons, he accidentally causes the rocket to take off. He arrives on the red planet, where he teaches German to Martian Zweikopf, who brings him before the king. The latter wants to inspect the rocket and, pushing the wrong button, flies to Earth. The king is treated as an exotic creature and is exhibited at the zoo while the rocket returns to Mars. Kasperl escapes the vengeance of the Martians and returns to his parents.

L'Assemblée des poissardes

Polichinelle maître d'hôtel

Blaubart

Die Fahrt zum Mars

Marionettenspiel in sechs Aufzügen