Don Juan is set free from hell on the condition that he leads one thousand and three women to ruin. When he comes back on earth, the seducer appoints Kasperle as his servant, under the name Casparello. The fairy Innocentia goes after them to protect the innocence of young women. The task will prove difficult. Don Juan arrives near Barcelona, where he chances on one of his old victims, Zerline, who is now old and desperately looking for a man. Don Juan and Kasperle flee as quickly as possible when they see her. Innocentia chases them relentlessly and locks Kasperle up in a cage as he sleeps, but she falls in love with him then. Don Juan comes on and frees the prisoner. In Turkey, Don Juan seduces Fatime, a slave to the cadi Mustapha. Both the master and the servant are arrested and sentenced to death. But Lucifer appears and takes Don Juan with him in hell, for having failed to seduce one hundred and three women. Innocentia also appears and takes Kasperle with her in her palace in the clouds.

String marionette

All audiences

Koch Ludwig

Germany

Munich

Printed

Manuscript

Music

Opera

Storm

Hell

Eternal punishment

Seduction

Turkey

Spain

Silliness

Old age

Despotism

Escape

Cage

Bird

Love

Innocence

Fantasy

Parodistic

German

Kasperles Gefahren

Don Juan

Kasperl

Fairy

Clerk

Zerlina

Slave

Servant

Devil

Apparition

Final intervention of the devil

Inn scene

Allegory

Magic act

Bawdy equivocation

Comic equivocation

Glory

Love story

Macaronism

Aria

Ghost

Dialect as a social marker

Versified passages

Deus ex machina

Confinement

Parody of formal language

Pact with the devil

Don Juan's zweites Leben

The Second Life of Don Juan

Polichinelle, a “broken old man” with a beard and white hair, enters the scene followed by some Gamins (Kids) making fun of him. The Génie de la Fontaine Molière (the Fontaine Molière Genie) appears, chases away the Gamins and comforts Polichinelle: he complains about his old age and relates his past achievements in Italy, Germany, England and France. They are both sorry for the death of writer Charles Nodier (1780-1844), who had praised Polichinelle. The Génie makes the statue of Molière that ornates the fountain appear, and he tells Polichinelle to drink from the fountain. Polichinelle obeys and immediately rejuvenates. Arlequin, Colombine, Pierrot, Léandre and Cassandre appear with the cast of a ballet who invites Polichinelle to join everyone and dance.

Not specified

France

Paris

Aging

Laughter

Didactic

La Fontaine de jouvence, page from the manuscript

French

Polichinelle

Genie

Child

Personnages de l'ancienne Comédie Italienne

Arlecchino

Cassandre

Colombine

Pierrot

Léandre

Dancer

Multi-voice shouting

Play in verse

Avista

Change of age

Ballet

La Fontaine de jouvence

The Fountain of Youth

After the fair Hedwig is taken away from him, Don Juan seduces Zinkelinde, to the utter despair of her tutor Nuckel, who wants her to marry an old man – Purzel. Kasperle pretends to help them find Zinkelinde and puts the two old men in a box. He does not let them out until Nuckel agrees to let Don Juan marry Zinkelinde. As Purzel still tries to stop this union, Kasperle beats him with a stick.

E. Sédouard (Eduard Schlesinger)

Berlin

Couple

Young girl

Forced marriage

Farcical

Der überrumpelte Hagestolz

Old man

Song

Sung scenes

Blow-with-a-stick

Political allegory

A poor old man dreams of marrying Mademoiselle de Bilaingre, while lamenting his age, which prevents him from doing so. Satan appears and offers to grant him all his wishes: to replace his old shack with a castle, to marry the young girl, and to live in the ‘brilliant costume of Count Maurice de Maltinguène’, who died in a duel a year earlier. However, there is one condition: every year, the old man must marry a new young girl, stab her the day after the wedding, drink her blood, and send her body to Satan. After a moment's hesitation, the old man gives in and signs the pact. Jules, the nephew of the Count of Bilaingre, returns from his studies to claim his cousin's promised hand in marriage. But he discovers that she has now been promised to another. Jules asks for the name of his rival and learns that it is Count Maurice de Maltinguène, which he knows to be impossible: he himself witnessed the duel in which the count was killed. The Count of Bilaingre then suggests that he stay to meet this rival. At the chapel, Julia refuses the marriage proposal in front of everyone. Later, Jules and Guignol hide there. When Count Maurice de Maltinguène draws his sword to kill Julia, Jules and Guignol rush in to save her. While Guignol accompanies Julia, Jules challenges the count to a duel and kills him. However, the count is resurrected, but in order to survive, he must kill the young girl before two o'clock in the morning. Two devils bring Julia before the count, but he perishes, having exceeded the time allotted to him. The Count of Bilaingre thanks Jules and promises him his daughter's hand in marriage.

Glove-puppet

Tuchan

Eternal youth

Cemetery

Phantom

Curse

Blackmail

Vampire

Prophetic dream

Promise

Wedding prevented

Revenge

Duel

Death

Fantastic

Dramatic

Comical

Count

Undead

Satan

Cousin

Guignol

Daughter

Young woman

Chambermaid

Domestic servant

Angel

Spectre

Demon

Monologue

Apparition of the Devil

Aside

Change of social status

Disguised character (false identity)

Apparition of a ghost

Apparition of an angel

Comedy of language

Chorus

Hidden character

Death on stage

Le Vampire ou le buveur de sang

The Vampire or the Blood Drinker

H. and F., an old working-class couple, dwell on their past while waiting to die in a hospice. Their dialogue develops in a suspended time and a dark atmosphere. Between recriminations, sadness and bitter memories, time is filled only with their quarrels and the few repetitive actions they perform every day in their room. Pierrot, their only son, who has not visited them for a long time, is a constant presence-absence in their daily life, one of their main sources of discussion.

Adults

Lemahieu Daniel

Avignon

Typed or electronic text with handwritten annotations

Domestic violence

Labour

Unemployment

Society

Worker

Daily

Taboo

Loneliness

Oppression

Sub-text

Homosexuality

Realist

Burlesque

Old woman

Domestic scene

Invisible character

Argument

Awaiting

Silence

Analepsis (Flash-back)

Entre Chien et Loup

At twilight

Miséria est un vieux forgeron qui passe ses journées à travailler le fer. Son seul plaisir est de prendre soin de son noyer. Un jour, São Pedro (Saint Pierre) vient lui rendre visite, demandant un fer à cheval. Comme il ne lui en reste plus, Miséria lui propose de prendre celui qui est un porte-bonheur en argent. Quelques temps plus tard, São Pedro retourne chez Miséria, disant qu’il peut demander un souhait. Miséria demande que ceux qui grimpent dans son noyer pour voler des noix finissent prisonniers de l’arbre. 
Quand la Mort arrive pour chercher Miséria, il fait un pacte avec le diable, avec lequel il gagne 20 ans. Au bout de 20 ans, la Mort revient. A ce moment, Miséria lui demande un dernier souhait : qu’elle grimpe à l’arbre pour lui chercher une noix. Ainsi, la Mort devient prisonnière du noyer. Tant qu'elle est prisonnière de l'arbre, le soleil ne se couche plus, il n’y a plus de vent, les feuilles restent immobiles ; le monde s’est arrêté. Miséria finit pas libérer la Mort à condition qu’elle lui promette la vie éternelle. La Mort accepte, mais le prévient qu’il regrettera son souhait. La pièce finit avec le vieux forgeron qui travaille le fer, se plaignant de son sort : son arbre qui était la raison de son existence vient de mourir et il reste condamné à la vie éternelle.

Rod puppet

Portugal

Porto

Electronic text

Tree

Deal with the Devil

Tale

Desires

Human condition

Time

Immortality

Philosophical tale

Tragic

Miséria (Teatro de Marionetas do Porto, 1991)

Portuguese

Blacksmith

Saint Peter

Voice

Apparition of a Saint

Narrator

Apparition of Death

Peasant accent

Change of voice

Smoke

Flying character

Miséria

Misère

Pinocchio has grown old; he is 124 years old, and his nose has become as long as a mammoth's trunk. He spends his life watching television, until the blue-haired Fairy turns him into a piece of wood, as he was at the beginning of his story. Pinocchio has to start again and relive his journey: first he has to find his father Geppetto, to become a puppet again. Pinocchio sets out to find him in the ocean (Geppetto was last seen in the belly of a whale...), but in his quest, he meets only some very strange people: Lamereocéan, a man who waters a forest of noses, Captain Nocchio and Captain Pino, and others (Bout d’alu [Piece-of-aluminum], Bout de plastique [Piece-of-plastic],Cassette vidéo [Video-Cassette]...) who also claim to be called Pinocchio and who, unlike Bout de bois [Piece-of-wood], all manage to find their father. He keeps searching, but nobody can tell him where his father is. Moreover, every time he asks someone for help (each time unsuccessfully), he is forced to give a piece of his body: Bout de bois [Piece-of-wood] becomes smaller and smaller. In the end, Pinocchio doesn’t find his father, but he gets married to blue-haired Petite Télé [Little-Television].And together, they will continue searching...

Don Juan's zweites Leben

La Fontaine de jouvence

Don Juan

Der überrumpelte Hagestolz

Le Vampire ou le buveur de sang

Entre Chien et Loup

Miséria

Bout de bois

Based on the tireless, timeless Pinocchio. Text for puppets.

Rewind

Pulcinella di ritorno dalla Luna