It’s Saint John’s Day. The God Pan announces the arrival of dawn and invokes the spirit of flowers. Every character that appears seems to be filled with an overwhelming desire to love: a seminarian and the daughter of a priest secretly kiss, a bird sings for his lover, two young farmers embrace on a cart, two children talk about stars and babies, a nun praises her creator, two cats fight passionately, a young girl longing for love falls asleep… When she wakes up, an older girl suggests that they go see a witch that can make them see the man they will love. Despite their fear and the darkness, they go to the witch whose spell makes their future husbands appear. One looks oddly like the fisherman from the beginning of the play, and the other looks like the prince who previously appeared as a fish. Still quivering and bewitched, the two girls leave and Pan ends the play by playing the flute.

Shadow theatre

Not specified

Bernus Alexander von

Germany

Munich

Printed

Feast of Saint John

Romanticism

Love

Paganism

Nature

Night

Sorcery

Magic

Flowers

Lust

Lyrical

Fantasy

Greta von Hoerner, spirit of a flower, Pan, 1907

German

Romantisches Schattenspiel

Nymph

Spirit

Flower

Witch

Seminarian

Bird

Sheep

Shepherd

Fisherman

Fish

Prince

Hunter

Carter

Prostitute

Child

Young girl

Musician

Wisp

Mole

Poet

Metamorphosis

Apparition

Instrumental tune