Pierrot has just arrived in the Underworld after being hanged. Pluton (Pluto) tasks him with judging newcomers. Pythagore (Pythagoras), a Poète (Poet), a Financier, a Coquette, an Actrice d’Opéra (Opera Actress) and a Médecin (Doctor) go before him. Each is put in an unexpected group (the comedians for Pythagore, the false witnesses for the Poète, the coach drivers for the financier, etc.).

Rod and string marionette

Not specified

France

Paris

Printed summary

Hell

Judge

Judgment

Rivalry of theatres

Life of the theatres

Swindling

Medicine

Comical

Satirical

Manuscrit of Pierrot arbitre (BnF, Ms Fr 9313).

French

Pierrot

Pluto

Pythagoras

Poet

Financier

Coquette

Actress

Physician

Play with drawers

Final song

Surprise effect

Aria

Pierrot arbitre

Pierrot arbitrator

On a beach, a knight in armour appears from afar. He is tiny. He moves closer and progressively gets bigger. When he is the closest, he lays on the sand, says a single word, “yes,” and dies.

String marionette

Craig Edward Gordon

Italy

Marina di Pisa

Avignon

Printed

Knighthood

Death

English

or the Death of Aristocracy

Knight

Death on stage

Felix Techno is the inventor of a time machine which he demonstrates to the audience. He gives Technikus, a robot, to his nephew Peter, but makes it malfunction to punish him for his poor performance at school and to see if Peter and his friend Kalle can control it. The deranged robot wreaks havoc on the city. Felix, who observes the events from the future, returns to take part in them under different disguises. When the robot continues its journey into space, Felix dons a spacesuit and brings it back to Earth. The inventor decides to give the robot to Kalle, who has managed to control it, because "technology belongs to the one who controls it".

Young audiences

Focke Gerd

Germany

Time travel

Physics

Dysfunction

Cosmic journey

Spoutnik

Learning

Diving suit

Television

Robot

Dinosaur

Music

Time

Disobedience

Radio

School

Technical

Parodistic

German

Eine utopische Märchenkomödie für einen Schauspieler und einige Puppen

Inventor

Vendeur de journaux

Schoolteacher

Police officer

Fireman

Astronaut

Und die halbe Weltgeschichte, von übermorgen bis zur Zeit der Dinosaurier (oder umgekehrt)

Scene in the dark

Address to the public

Speeding up of time

Personified object

Disguised character (false identity)

Unexpected turn of events

Running gag

Argument

Instrumental tune

Spying scene

Commentary

Chase

Transformism

Peter und der Roboter

Peter et le robot

The Devil Alfredo is in love with Colombine and wants to marry her, but he has cold hands. Arlequin is supposed to help him solve his problem. Before entering the puppet booth, the puppeteer informs the audience that, while tidying up his puppets, he found among them the puppet of a little rabbit, an abandoned orphan. So as not to leave it alone, he takes it with him on tour, placing it in a basket at the entrance to the puppet theatre, which is the devil's house. When the curtain opens, Colombina discovers the foundling: how will she hide it and protect it from the Devil? Meanwhile, the devil decides that to get rid of his cold hands, he must buy a pair of rabbit fur gloves.... Despite his attempts to harm Ginetto, the devil is ultimately defeated and transformed into an onion.

Glove-puppet

All audiences

Brunello Gigio

Mogliano Veneto

Childhood

Devil

Protection

Tenderness

House

Rabbit

Orphan

Foundling

Humorous

Italian

Arlecchino

Harlequin

Colombina

Colombine

Metamorphosis

Comical regional accent

Talking animal

Avista

Silent play

Un trovatello a casa del diavolo

An orphan in the devil's house

The puppeteer apologises to the audience because he is not ready to perform Macbeth: instead, he will perform an unpublished comedy by Goldoni, The Jealous Emigrant (which is, in fact, a fake written on purpose by Brunello). But one of his glove puppets, Arlequin, disagrees and organises a rebellion, convincing the other puppets to perform Macbeth. The tragedy begins, but Arlequin, who has dared to step out of his role, must die like Macbeth. The same applies to his antagonist King Duncan, who - as we discover at the end - is no other than the puppeteer himself.

Bare hand

Adults

Molnár Gyula (aka Giulio Molnár)

Rebellion

Self-consciousness of puppets

Rewriting

Adaptation

Fake unpublished

Shakespeare

Tragic

Ironic

Rodolfo

Brighella

Lady Macbeth

Macbeth

Pantaloon

Macduff

Balanzone

Generico

Witch

Messenger

Guardian

Sicaire

Monkey

Theatre within the theatre

Double characters

Rehearsal (play within a play)

Apparition of the puppeteer

Captatio benevolentiae

Tragic irony

Tragic conflict

Parody of formal language

Macbeth all'improvviso

Improvised Macbeth

The protagonist, Franz, is a young Viennese scientist who, during a hypnosis session conducted by Mesmer, learns that his cousin Angèlica, with whom he is in love, is in great danger. He decides to go to her rescue and, after many adventures, arrives in Budapest to find that she has just died. Convinced that she has been hypnotised by the alchemist Adam Le Fay, he keeps her body in ice, brings her back to his laboratory and tries various experiments to resurrect her. He fails and is accused of her murder by Napoleonic troops who have just entered Vienna. Sentenced to death, he is saved at the last moment by Le Fay who explains to him that if one of them dies, the other also perishes. They duel, Franz throws himself on Le Fay's sword, and both die at the same time. It is clear that they are two sides of the same personality, symbolising the conflict between rationalism and superstition.

Pierrot arbitre

Yes

or the Death of Aristocracy

Peter und der Roboter

Eine utopische Märchenkomödie für einen Schauspieler und einige Puppen

Un trovatello a casa del diavolo

Macbeth all'improvviso

La mirada de l'alquimista

Obra per a titelles i actors

Trovatello Due

Festa di compleanno

A revolta dos objetos

Uma conferência animada