Captain Caricknagat, heading a ship of pirates, beats and expels Joe Miles since he made a move on his wife. Miles promises vengeance. The Captain and his team disembark on the shore of an island to find fresh water. They are attacked by its inhabitants. Captain asks a part of his troupes to bring his wife, 'The Lolita,' to his ship while he fights with the natives. Upon return to the ship, however, she is nowhere to be found, and the majority of his men have perished in the battle. Two days later, James Broad, the boatswain, returns. He has escaped and carries a message that The Lolita etched into a piece of tree bark. She writes that her body will be burnt and her head hung at the entrance of a cave. She asks her husband to recover her head, to put it in a box, and to bury it once back on their island (The Isle of Plumes). The Captain sends the last of his men to retrieve the remains of his wife, but it's a fluke, and only the Captain and James survive. The two pirates wait for nightfall to finally steal back the skull and the vessel before returning home. James dies of thirst as Captain nears the shore. Joe Miles, who is waiting for Captain on the island since being expelled from the ship, kills him for vengeance and steals his treasure. When he opens the chest, however, he finds only a severed head.

Toy theatre

Young audiences

Ireland

Strete

Printed

Revenge

Death

Piracy

Last will and testament

Boat

Relic

Black comedy

Humorous

Dramatic

Jack B. Yeats, The Scourge of the Gulph, 1911.

English

Or Fierce Revenge

Captain

Pirate

Wife

Narrator

Gunshot

Murder on stage

Wandering

Plot twist

The Scourge of The Gulph

Le Fouet du Golfe

Pulcinella and Death have a daughter, Baby, who suffers from the difficulties of her parents' separation: Pulcinella is now engaged to Teresina and wants Death to leave him alone. Death would like Baby to become a great actress, so she has enrolled her in an acting class: the end-of-year recital is the next day. During the night, Pulcinella steals the poem Baby was supposed to recite and she loses her voice. In an attempt to get it back, Baby enters Pulcinella's belly to retrieve the poem. When Baby emerges from Pulcinella's belly, Teresina, who had prayed to San Gennaro to give her a child with Pulcinella, thinks that Baby is their longed-for child. So, when Death is about to take Baby back, Teresina makes a jealous scene and gets angry at Pulcinella. Death begs Pulcinella to return, but to no avail. Finally, Baby grows up and manages to do the job she wanted: driver of the Neapolitan underground called "Circumvesuviana".