The tailor Bock lodges a complaint with the mayor Salzmaier against Kasperl, his tenant, for night-time disturbances. Salzmaier wants to put him in prison, but Kasperl, warned by his clerk friend Spritzler, pretends to be Garibaldi, entering the Tyrol leading 50,000 men. He takes up residence in Salzmaier's house, flirts with his wife Margarethe and drinks so much beer... that everyone recognises him: the play ends with a general brawl.

String marionette

Young audiences

Pocci Franz von

Germany

Munich

Printed

Excessive drinking

Beer

Spousal abuse

Italy

Army

Seduction

Comical

Burlesque

Satirical

German

Ein politisches Trauerspiel, aus dem Italienischen übersetzt

Greffier

Kasperl

Madame Kasperl

Tailleur

Innkeeper

In der Ferne das Garibaldische Armeekorps

Inn scene

Political allegory

Parody of formal language

Word for another

Nearly

Dialect

Macaronism

Disguise

Brawl

Kasperl als Garibaldi

Kasperl as Garibaldi

After a prologue in which Casper announces, among other things, that he is going to cut off the ears of children who are not well-behaved, the performance begins. Casper announces that, out of boredom, he wants to become a soldier. He shows his insubordination towards the non-commissioned officer who undertakes to train him by beating him with sticks. The non-commissioned officer sends him to the devil, who arrives: Casper kills him. He returns to his wife, announcing that he will be a general. She hits him with a broom, takes his stick back and they fight.

Glove-puppet

Sonneberg

Soldier

Military

Silliness

Insubordination

Violence

General

Stick

Wickedness

Broom

Household

Couple

Farcical

Ironic

Non-commissioned officer

Devil

Prologue

Stichomythia

Blow-with-a-stick

Devil's apparition

Domestic scene

Comic Equivocation

Casper will Soldat werden

Casper wants to become a soldier

In a tavern, Virgili presents four short stories that take place in a circus and have the themes of solitude, failure and death in common. A clown, in love with a trapeze artist, kills her partner; a trainer treats his wife as if she were a circus animal and ends up killing her; a young juggler kills his father with the needles he uses to inject cocaine; a soldier, a musician in the circus band who raped girls and killed children during the war, ends up shot as a deserter.

Adults

Alapont Pasqual

Spain

Valencia

Love

Drama

Discrimination

Death

Loneliness

Revenge

Circus

Domination

Murder

Allegory

Dramatic

Grotesque

Catalan

Obra per a un actor i titelles

Clown

Trapeze artist

Accordionist

Edith Piaf

Serveur

Spider

Jazz Band

Billie Holiday

Tamer

Carlos Gardel

Guitarist

Danseur

Juggler

Le père

Harald Paulsen

Général

Announcer

Metatheatre

Projections

Song

Murder on stage

El circ de la fosca

Le cirque des ténèbres