Two friends, Mooney and Spooney, meet. They had pulled a bad prank on the king and were fired for it. Thus, they decide to become stationmasters. Orlando has to take a train to Birmingham, which saddens his wife, Sophonisba. He reassures her by saying he will be home for dinner. They agree to eat mutton. Mooney and Spooney, now stationmasters, start singing instead of talking, as was required by Bradshaw. They meet Kaffir, a mysterious character who does not speak their language. According to Mooney, Kaffir wants to be a train driver. Mooney gives him the position. Mrs. Muddle reaches the platform. She wants to take the train to Birmingham and send a telegram from there. A two-legged Bradshaw’s Guide appears in front of Mooney and asks him in a loud voice why he is not singing. He adds that Spooney sings out of tune and that both of them must stop singing. Orlando, now at the train station, refuses to pay for his train ticket but is forced to do so by the stationmasters. He puts his luggage on the train and leaves to fetch the money. When he comes back an hour later, he learns that the train left with his luggage before the time given by the Bradshaw’s Guide. When the train heading to Birmingham pulls into the station, Spooney and Mooney go warn Mrs. Muddle, but she wants to take an omnibus over the train. She leaves, accusing them of wanting to trick her. When she comes back to pick up her things, she learns that the train left with them. Meanwhile, Sophonisba worries about her husband being late. Their cook, ruined the meal and offers to make an Irish stew instead. Orlando comes home and curses the Bradshaw because the trains do not leave according to the guide’s timetables. Bradshaw comes into play. He states that he took revenge and changed the train schedules because his order of singing was not respected.

Young audiences

Carroll Lewis

Great Britain

Croft-on-Tees

Printed

Train station

Revenge

Train times

Train

Journey

Comical

Humorous

Farcical

L. Carroll, La Guida di Bragia. The Lewis Carroll Society of North America, 1999.

English

Announcer

Stationmaster

Husband

Wife

Traveller

Cook

Situation comedy

Word warping

Song

Personified object

Misunderstanding

La Guida di Bragia

Blind Boy, Cockatrice, and Columbus the Parrot are headed to Rome. The Magic Donkey refuses to walk because it is afraid of Cockatrice’s face, and until he wears a mask. At a crossroads where three different roads lead to Rome, they each decide to follow a different path and agree to meet at the Royal George, an inn. Columbus, disguised as a rich traveller, gets to the inn first. He uses the Magic Table to gift a delightful meal to all customers. After this meal, Columbus goes to sleep, and Oward, the innkeeper, switches the Magic Table with an ordinary one. In the morning, Columbus receives a telegram from the King of Rome, who is also the King of Europe, inviting him to his palace to meet his daughter, Princess Razzlemond, and to marry her. At court, Columbus tries to make another feast appear but fails. The innkeeper complains about his table being stolen, and Columbus is sent to prison.

String marionette

Not specified

Craig Edward Gordon

Italy

Marina di Pisa

Theft

Meals

Magic

Royal audience

Europe

Satirical

Fantasy

The Magic Table

Queen

Cockatrice

Basilic

Parrot

Blind

Table

Donkey

Innkeeper

Postman

Peasant

Italian

Chambermaid

Herald

Trumpet (military man/woman)

Courtier

Guard

Prompter (theatre)

Masked characters

Instrumental tune

Aria

Monologue

Compartmented stage

Inn scene

Apparition

Parade

Avista

Object coming to life

Letter

Antiphrase

The Roman Adventure - Part One

A famous artist who has failed in her family and love life finds it very difficult to interact socially. She doesn't like fame and prefers to remain unnoticed, but everyone who knows her tries to take advantage of her success: family members, the mayor of her home town, friends who invite her to add glamour to their parties. One boy has very deep feelings for her, feelings that his Siamese twin does not share. Tired of it all, the girl accepts a frog's proposal: for her life to change, she must kiss it. She accepts and her fame disappears: she becomes a different woman.

Manipulated object

Mannequin

Ventriloquism

Zarzoso Paco

Spain

Valencia

Celebrity

Dissatisfaction

Animal

Siamese

Love

Opportunism

Reification

Hybridity

Twinning

Grotesque

Catalan

Obra per a actriu i titelles

Old woman

Phone

Groom

Siamese Twin

Part of human body

Flower

Lamp

Wasp

Eagle

Mayor

Hand

Model

Swordfish

Frog

Waiter

Fiancé

Fiancée

Painter

Travelling clerk

Messenger

Metatheatre

Talking animal

Splitting of the body

Metamorphosis

L'èxit és l'ombra

Success is darkness

Three young chicks speaking different languages travel together. They are looking for the sun, which has not been seen for three days. After meeting other small animals on the way, who guided them, they find that the sun is trapped behind a dark cloud. At the end, they make the sun shine again with the audience’s help.

Actor and puppet

Tabletop Puppetry

Alcoy

Electronic text

Fable

Linguistic diversity

Friendship

Theatre at school

Union

Didactic

All the characters in the play Sol, solet, on ets?

Chick

Bird

Rabbit

Moon

Narrator

Dialogue with the audience

Intervention of the audience

Sol, solet, on ets?

Sun, little sun, where are you?

Pasqual, a schoolteacher from the village, teaches the cleaning lady Aldonza how to read. They read from Don Quixote and play out several chapters using everyday objects they find around them.

Shadow theatre

Object theatre

Cullera

Adventure

Professor

Literacy class

Reading

School

Dramatic

Parodistic

A scene from Puri Fariza and Pol Paul's show Les lettres de Quichotte (Quixote's letters)