Kasperl had a rocket built for him, but he has yet to pay for it as he wants to test it first. A Gerichtsvollzieher (Bailiff) has to seize the rocket while the Flughafenwächter (Airport security guard) is about to sell it to another client. Kasperl fools them and, despite Gretl’s protest, he hops on the rocket and flies to the Moon. There, he encounters the Mondmann (Moon man), his wife, and other characters. A fight starts because the Mondmann wants to get rid of Kasperl: he is afraid that his star will become a tourist destination. Kasperl goes back to Earth and is interviewed on his trip. To pay for his journey, he suggests displaying the rocket in a museum.

Glove-puppet

Young audiences

Eckart Walther

Germany

Printed

Moon

Rocket

Tourism

Colonialism

Space

Crater

Hunger

Space flight

Theatre at school

Fantasy

Suggestion of scenery for the second act of Kasperl Larifaris Mondfahrt

German

Ein Handpuppenspiel

Kasperl

Madame Kasperl

Court usher

Guardian

Journalist

Pilot

Address to the public

Brawl

Argument

Monologue

Metadiscourse on puppet theatre

Kasperl Larifaris Mondfahrt

Kasperl Larifari's trip to the Moon

One day, little Agustí decides to grow a tree and plants a seed. But another child, Fidel, swaps the seed with another and the resulting tree produces a very special fruit: it contains the genie Eugeni, who punishes Fidel by beating him with a stick. Fidel asks for forgiveness and the genie throws confetti and sweets to the audience.

Lanuza Empar de

Spain

Valencia

Tree

Ecology

Environment

Tale

Seed

Candy

Child

Mean trick

Punishment

Didactic

Catalan

Genie

Misunderstanding

Blow-with-a-stick

Apparition of a genie

Un arbre genial

An amazing tree

A very big and very strong ogre terrifies an entire village. As the ogre sleeps, digesting a cow he has eaten, the inhabitants leap at the chance to tie him down. When he wakes up, they tell him they will not free him unless he does something useful, such as cleaning all the houses’ chimneys and blowing on some clouds so that it rains. Once the ogre has accomplished these tasks, the villagers have him believe that another ogre claims to be stronger than he is. The ogre goes into the mountains to challenge his rival. Because of the echo of his screams, he keeps thinking that his rival always is further and further away, so much so that he never comes back to the village.

Shadow theatre

Village

Deception

Mountain

Echo

Ogre

Comic equivocation

Naive character deceived

Sound effects

Talking animal

L'ogre espantatotsitotes

The ogre thatscareseveryone

The wanderer Nabíh tells a child, Hassan, how the merchant Abdul found on a dead man’s body a bottle from which emerges a genie. This genie, in turn, tells the story of the dead man, a fallen king, father of Fatima, a princess who is said to have taken refuge among the desert dwellers because of the fratricidal war. The king's supporters are looking for Fatima to offer her the throne, and discover that she is Laïla, Hassan's mother. However, she renounces the throne to become the princess of the desert. Other stories are added to this main plot.

Rod puppet

String marionette

Sirera Rodolf

Adventure

Vagrant

East

Princess

Vagabond

Merchant (man)

Commanding officer

Narrator

Theatre within the theatre

Throws

Dance

Instrumental tune

La Princesa del desert

Princess of the Desert

Three young chicks speaking different languages travel together. They are looking for the sun, which has not been seen for three days. After meeting other small animals on the way, who guided them, they find that the sun is trapped behind a dark cloud. At the end, they make the sun shine again with the audience’s help.