While the Countess von Eichenfels is running to the aid of her husband, who is seriously wounded at the end of a victorious campaign, their only child Heinrich is taken from his cradle by a Gypsy woman, old Juta. Eight years later, Heinrich escapes from the cave where he was held captive by the gypsy band, while the Gypsies are out robbing on the highways. He finds refuge with Menrad, a hermit and a former comrade-in-arms of the Count's squire, Hannes. In pursuit of the robbers, he stops at the hermitage and, with Menrad's help, surprises the two Gypsies who were looking for Heinrich. In the meantime, Juta has been arrested and has confessed everything to the Count. Hannes and Menrad bring Heinrich back to his parents after eight years in captivity.

String marionette

Young audiences

Pocci Franz von

Germany

Munich

Printed

Baby

Family

Gypsies

Cavern

Lost child

Thief

Dramatic

German

Comte

Comtesse

Hermit

Prologue

Song

Story

Monologue

Running away

Transforming scenery

Heinrich von Eichenfels

The tailor Bock lodges a complaint with the mayor Salzmaier against Kasperl, his tenant, for night-time disturbances. Salzmaier wants to put him in prison, but Kasperl, warned by his clerk friend Spritzler, pretends to be Garibaldi, entering the Tyrol leading 50,000 men. He takes up residence in Salzmaier's house, flirts with his wife Margarethe and drinks so much beer... that everyone recognises him: the play ends with a general brawl.

Excessive drinking

Beer

Spousal abuse

Italy

Army

Seduction

Comical

Burlesque

Satirical

Ein politisches Trauerspiel, aus dem Italienischen übersetzt

Greffier

Kasperl

Madame Kasperl

Tailleur

Innkeeper

In der Ferne das Garibaldische Armeekorps

Inn scene

Political allegory

Parody of formal language

Word for another

Nearly

Dialect

Macaronism

Disguise

Brawl

Kasperl als Garibaldi

Kasperl as Garibaldi

In a tavern, Virgili presents four short stories that take place in a circus and have the themes of solitude, failure and death in common. A clown, in love with a trapeze artist, kills her partner; a trainer treats his wife as if she were a circus animal and ends up killing her; a young juggler kills his father with the needles he uses to inject cocaine; a soldier, a musician in the circus band who raped girls and killed children during the war, ends up shot as a deserter.

Adults

Alapont Pasqual

Spain

Valencia

Love

Drama

Discrimination

Death

Couple

Loneliness

Revenge

Violence

Circus

Domination

Murder

Allegory

Grotesque

Catalan

Obra per a un actor i titelles

Clown

Trapeze artist

Accordionist

Edith Piaf

Serveur

Spider

Jazz Band

Billie Holiday

Tamer

Carlos Gardel

Guitarist

Danseur

Juggler

Le père

Soldier

Harald Paulsen

Général

Announcer

Metatheatre

Projections

Murder on stage

El circ de la fosca

Le cirque des ténèbres