<p>Tom Fool, the author of the play which will be performed, finds out that the set designer chose an engraving showing Craig pointing to the huge entrance to the Macbeth's castle to portray the Gates of Hell. He voices his discontent. The set designer then suggests a “realistic” representation of Hell: the door to a mansion in a rich neighbourhood of London. Still unsatisfied, Tom Fool eventually agrees with the stage designer for a more “traditional” style, as portrayed in mystery plays staged in popular theatres (notably in Christmas pantomimes in Great Britain) – with a Hellmouth, colorful devils, pitchforks, boiling cauldrons, snakes, and so on. The characters in <em>The Drama for Fools</em>, eager to play, come forward one by one on the stage, but Tom Fool has not written their parts yet.</p>

String marionette

Not specified

Craig Edward Gordon

Italy

Printed

Scenery

Realism

Set design

Hell

Popular theatre

Props

Devil

Shakespeare

Comical

Satirical

English

Scene 1 from the Drama for Fools

An Interlude

Tom Fool

Stage designer

Propsman

Pluto

Snake

Blind Boy

Blind

Child

Parrot

Metatheatre

Avista

Apparition

Apparition of the Devil

The Gates of Hell

Les Portes de l'Enfer