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

Infant

Family

Gypsies

Cavern

Lost child

Thief

Dramatic

German

Count

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

Clerk

Kasperl

Madame Kasperl

Tailor

Innkeeper

In der Ferne das Garibaldische Armeekorps

Inn scene

Political allegory

Parody of formal language

Word for another

Dialect

Macaronism

Disguise

Brawl

Kasperl als Garibaldi

Kasperl as Garibaldi

Rosa – the keeper of the “Zum Golden Stern” inn – wants her daughter Analies to marry Kasper, the waiter, so that he does not go to war and can protect the inn. But Analies hesitates. She A Zouave, who promises her a rich life after the war, courts her. Kasperl is disappointed and enlists in the Prussian army. After arresting a Jewish spy, he receives a bonus and finds favour with his major who makes him his Fourierschütz (a soldier assigned to an officer for protection and personal service). Kasperl follows his regiment and arrives near Sedan, where he meets Analies again. She has been abandoned in the middle of a battlefield by the Zouave, who was sick of her. She wants to go back to Kasperl. The major forces them to marry. Analies agrees on the spot, but Kasperl has reservations about it: what if she leaves him again? Analies promises to be faithful and Kasperl agrees to marry her. Kasperl’s major must escort prisoners to Strasbourg. Kasperl and Analies go back to the inn. Rosa was worried about her daughter’s and her waiter’s fates. The wedding is celebrated with dances, while rows of prisoners parade outside the inn.

Not specified

Electronic text

Money

Anti-Semitism

Nationalism

Loyalty in love

Heroic

Kasperls kriegerische Heldenthaten

Fiancée

Waiter

Fourierschütz

Zouave

Prisoner

Captain

Lieutenant

Auxiliary

Shopkeeper

Schoolteacher

Surgeon

Soldier

Batman

Battlefield scene

Love rivalry

Beating with a broom

Death on stage

Dance

Die Schlacht bei Sedan am 2 September 1870

The Battle of Sedan on 2 September 1870

David is risking his life by spying for the Boers. When he learns that the English have gathered their forces outside Kimberley, he warns Louis Botha, the Boer General. Botha sends his infantry against the English. During the battle, David is captured, but the Boers free him. David shouts “Long live freedom!” as he retreats to Kimberley.

Rod and string marionette

France

Roubaix

Handwritten outline

Freedom

Seat

People and history

Head of a puppet representing a Boer

French

Épisode de la guerre Anglo-Boers

General

Boer

Traitor

English man

Execution scene

La Bataille de Kimberley

The Siege of Kimberley

As Carlo Magno’s (Charlemagne) ambassador, Ruggero has gone to ask for the Pope’s help in the impeding war against the African king Agramante and other pagan kings. On the way home, Ruggero kills a snake in the woods. Then, in a port, he saves the princess Aladina as she was being abducted by a giant. At nightfall, Aladina and Ruggero ask for food and bed at Altaripa’s castle. At this moment (in this version), Ruggero is poisoned then killed by the traitor Pinamonte. The necromancer Malagigi hears about the death of Ruggero through demons. But Aladina manages to escape, goes to Carlo Magno’s court and relates this terrible act of treason. The paladins besiege Altaripa’s castle and Bradamante, Ruggero’s wife, kills Pinamonte.

Rod marionette

Armed rod marionette

Palermo

Typewriting

Treason

Poison

Murder

Revenge

Princess

Kidnapping

Epic

Fantasy

Italian

Choir

Pope

Roger

Ruggero

Snake

Giant

Knight

Angel

Alcina

Magician (female)

Devil

Magician

Warrior

Charlemagne (King)

Ganelon

Renaud de Montauban

Orlando

Bradamante

Fight with an animal

Release of a prisoner

Sword fight

Night scene

Murder on stage

Ascent to heaven

Avventure di Ruggero dell'Aquila bianca

Adventures of Ruggero of the white Eagle

In Carlo Magno’s (Charlemagne) royal palace, paladins are getting ready to fight Agramante, who has besieged Paris, and his army. In a wood, while she is waiting for her lover Ruggero, Bradamante kills a snake; then she saves a soldier who was in danger because of another snake. The solider tells him that Ruggero is going to marry Marfisa and he promises Bradamante that he will lead her to Agramante’s camp, so she can challenge Ruggero in a duel. In the enemy camp, the knights are preparing to fight Carlo Magno’s army. Marfisa tends to Ruggero, who was wounded by Mandricardo. When Bradamante arrives, Marfisa goes to fight her in Ruggero’s stead. The two warriors fight in a duel. Ruggero arrives to split them up. When he learns that the knight fighting Marfisa is his beloved Bradamante, he explains that he could not meet with her at the appointed time because he was wounded. Marfisa eavesdrops on the conversation, without being seen, and discovers that Ruggero is in love with Bradamante. Ruggero and Marfisa are about to fight when the ghost of the magician Atlante appears and reveals that they are the twin children of the Chrisitan king Ruggero di Risa. Ruggero and Marfisa reconcile, decide to be christened and to go with Bradamante to Carlo Magno’s court.

Love

Duel

Twins

Jealousy

Phantom

Encounter

Furiosa e terribile battaglia tra Bradamante e Marfisa per amore di Angelica

Paladin (female)

King

Saracen

Moorish

Agramante

Marfisia

Warrior (female)

Empress

Skeleton

Atlante

Appearance of a ghost

Duel scene

Hidden character

Spectacular turn of events

Reunion

Battaglia tra Bradamante e Marfisa

Battle between Bradamante and Marfisa

In King Agramante’s camp, where the Moorish knights have gathered to fight Carlo Magno, Rodomonte and Mandricardo decide to challenge each other in a duel for Doralice’s love. But Ruggero does not want Mandricardo to fight under Hercules’ insignias, which he claims for himself. At the end of the duel, Mandricardo dies and Ruggero is seriously injured. In a wood, while she waits for her lover Ruggero, Bradamante kills a rhinoceros. Then she kills a snake and, by doing so, saves a soldier’s life. The soldier tells her that Ruggero is going to marry Marfisa. Bradamante then goes to Agramante’s camp. She challenges Marfisa in a duel. After separating the two duellists, Ruggero chases Bradamante to explain that he has missed their rendezvous because of his injury. Marfisa hides and eavesdrop on their conversation, and so discovers that Ruggero is in love with Bradamante. Ruggero and Marfisa are about to battle when the ghost of the magician Atlante appears and reveals that they are the twin children of the Christian king Ruggero di Risa. Ruggero and Marfisa reconcile, decide to be christened and go with Bradamante to Carlo Magno’s court.

Typed or electronic text with handwritten annotations

Riconoscimento

Rodomonte

Mandricard

Profeta

Sobrino

Doralice

Gradasse

Rhinoceros

Battaglia tra Bradamante e Ruggero e Marfisa

Battle between Bradamante, Ruggero and Marfisa. Recognition

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.

Heinrich von Eichenfels

Kasperl als Garibaldi

Ein politisches Trauerspiel, aus dem Italienischen übersetzt

Die Schlacht bei Sedan am 2 September 1870

Kasperls kriegerische Heldenthaten

La Bataille de Kimberley

Épisode de la guerre Anglo-Boers

Avventure di Ruggero dell'Aquila bianca

Battaglia tra Bradamante e Marfisa

Battaglia tra Bradamante e Ruggero e Marfisa

Riconoscimento

El circ de la fosca

Obra per a un actor i titelles

La Mémoire des serpillères

È bello vivere liberi!

Progetto di teatro civile per un’attrice, cinque burattini e un pupazzo