<p>The Devil Alfredo is in love with Colombine and wants to marry her, but he has cold hands. Arlequin is supposed to help him solve his problem. Before entering the puppet booth, the puppeteer informs the audience that, while tidying up his puppets, he found among them the puppet of a little rabbit, an abandoned orphan. So as not to leave it alone, he takes it with him on tour, placing it in a basket at the entrance to the puppet theatre, which is the devil's house. When the curtain opens, Colombina discovers the foundling: how will she hide it and protect it from the Devil? Meanwhile, the devil decides that to get rid of his cold hands, he must buy a pair of rabbit fur gloves.... Despite his attempts to harm Ginetto, the devil is ultimately defeated and transformed into an onion.</p>

Glove-puppet

All audiences

Brunello Gigio

Italy

Mogliano Veneto

Childhood

Devil

Protection

Tenderness

House

Rabbit

Orphan

Foundling

Comical

Humorous

Italian

Arlecchino

Harlequin

Colombina

Colombine

Metamorphosis

Comical regional accent

Talking animal

Avista

Surprise effect

Silent play

Un trovatello a casa del diavolo

An orphan in the devil's house

<p>At the beginning of the year 2000, the elected representative and his secretary organised an evening in a municipal multi-purpose hall, where they met with the 'working classes' to ask them what their dreams were. The politician wants to redesign the local bar so that it is no longer a meeting place for 'not normal people', and hopes to direct people's dreams towards his goal. But nothing happens as he imagined: everyone talks about their dreams, but they turn out to be expressions of inner unease or personal hopes, rather than achievable wishes. By sharing fragments of their drifting lives, the citizens turn the evening into a slump of violent outbursts, which nevertheless leaves room for bursts of infinite tenderness.</p>

Not specified

Lemahieu Daniel

France

Paris

Villeneuve-lès-Avignon

Typed or electronic text with handwritten annotations

People

Poverty

Worker

Violence

Sadness

Fear

Bourgeoisie

Vaudeville

Music

Love

Wrestling

Blood

French

Social vaudeville for fifty puppets and three actors

Patron

Politician

Twins

Social worker

Bride

Vicar

Old woman

Child

Old man

Sung scenes

Inn scene

Dialect as a social marker

Dance

Splitting of the body

Song

Monologue

Chorality

Silence

Fight

Gunshot

Fake death

Grammelot

Le rêve de votre vie (à vos souhaits)

The dream of your life (Bless you!)