Anatole wants to save Fric, who was mistakenly sent into space. They visit the Moon, Venus, the planet of Dame Tartine (Lady Toast), and that of the Père Noël (Father Christmas). Their trip ends in the pot of the Peaux-Rouges (Redskins), but a clever idea from the Chat Tempête (Storm Cat) saves them.

String marionette

Young audiences

Blin André

France

Montrouge

Typed or electronic text with handwritten annotations

Milky Way

Astronaut

Telescope

Star

Comet

Rescue

Cannibalism

Helicopter

Red Indian

Christmas

Comical

Fantasy

Company Les P'tits Bonshommes d'André Blin (André Blin’s Little Men), Les Aventuriers du ciel, 1955.

French

Servant

Shepherd

Father Christmas

Père Fouettard

Fairy

Dwarf

Page

Dame Tartine

Snow White

Aladin

Little Red Riding Hood

Little Mermaid

Caricature

Unexpected turn of events

Ballet

Pantomime

Warning signs

Les Aventuriers du ciel

The Adventurers of the sky

A young boy named Pepperl is sick and can't go out. With the collaboration of Kasperl, who replaces him in bed and takes the medicines meant for him, Pepperl escapes from his house to go see the Christmas manger. Arriving on a flying saucer and disguised as an astronaut, the Man on the Moon convinces Kasperl and Pepperl to escape the boring festive season to celebrate Christmas on the Moon. Upon their arrival, they learn that the Man on the Moon was deceiving them. Kasperl loses his memory of his life on Earth. Thanks to the intervention of the Girl on the Moon and of Saint Nicolas who brings him a musical Christmas ornament, Kasperl recovers his memory. Saint Nicolas, Kasperl, and Pepperl return to Earth, where they are awaited by Father Christmas to celebrate the holiday.

Germany

Munich

Audio-visual recording

Forced marriage

Identity

Nostalgia

Sadness

Cosmic journey

Visit

Regrets

Countdown

Oversight

Crater

Threat

Journey

German

Kasperl

Pepperl

Inhabitants on the moon

Grand-father

Saint Nicholas

Doctor

Dialect

Object coming to life

Disguised character (false identity)

Flying character

Letter

Flying machine

Apparition

Entrance from below stage

Die klingende Weihnachtskugel

La boule de Noël musicale

Convinced that there are people on the Moon, Pulcinella wonders where they are hiding. The Moon invites him to go to her on a funicular ship. He meets the lunatic Beniamino, who explains that everyone is terrorised and has been hiding since the American astronaut came. This astronaut claims that the Moon belongs to him, and he wants to kill Pulcinella. But Pulcinella sends him back to earth with a blow of a stick. Beniamino asks Pulcinella to look after a dead grandfather, who turns out to be a very beautiful baby. Death convinces Pulcinella to be his baby and sings him lullabies so that he falls asleep, but Pulcinella wakes up and fights Him. A monstrous dog plays with Pulcinella, but he is frightened when the cloned ewe Dolly bites him. Pulcinella kills Dolly and, as a reward, Beniamino offers him his wife Carlotta. Pulcinella chooses instead to marry their daughter Teresina, and he goes back to earth with her.

Glove-puppet

All audiences

Leone Bruno

Italy

Naples

Palermo

Electronic text

Moon

Love

America

Flag

Topsy-turvy world

Unfaithfulness

Cloning

Conquest of space

Ugliness

Old age

Parodistic

Italian

Pulcinella e i lunatici

Pulcinella

Death

Teresina

Scene of madness

Dance

Lazzi

Fight

Fight with an animal

Blow-with-a-stick

Pulcinella di ritorno dalla Luna

Pulcinella back on the Moon

In 2111, Sascha, who was born on Earth, makes her first trip to Mars to visit her grandmother who lives in an Earth colony. She is talking on her personal computer. Suddenly, Yuri Gagarin appears: he is a hologram created by the computer, but Yuri believes that he is a real person. Hearing that Sascha misses her friends on Earth, the computer turns the spaceship around and sends it back to its starting point. Sascha wants the ship to continue towards its original direction, but the computer refuses. Yuri shows Sascha which button to press to restart the computer, but the computer makes it disappear. The play ends when the ship arrives on Mars.

Küspert Annalena

Chemnitz

Printed

Mars Planet

Computer

Consciousness

Control

Fear

Family

Artificial intelligence

Disobedience

Dramatic

108 Minuten Zukunft

Ordinateur

Young girl

Youri Gagarine

Personified object

Confinement

Epilogue

Recounting of memories

Plot twist

Argument

Dialogue with a computer

Juri - die erste Reise

Youri - le premier voyage

Mouse Armstrong and his friend, the mechanic Mitch, are listening to a radio special about mankind's first moon landing. Mouse regrets that no one knows the truth: she was the first person to go to the moon, but the authorities named the human astronaut after him. To make it clear how she achieved this feat, she re-enacts the events with objects made for the purpose. We learn that Armstrong did research in Washington, where she was greeted by an old mouse who said that the history of mouse flying was ancient. Armstrong manages to get into space despite having her rocket plans stolen by a secret police agent, and ends up proving to the mice that the Moon, contrary to their belief, is not cheese.