Having graduated from the University of Heidelberg, Anselme has become an assistant at old Hans’s toyshop, in Nuremberg, in order to grow closer to his employer’s daughter, Wilhelmine, whom he secretly loves. The son of the adviser Paykul also courts her. The Jew Mardochée sells them dolls which look like little women sleeping, and he says that they come from the Moon. In the evening, when Anselme is alone, Queen Lunaria and her companions wake up and tell him that they have come from the Moon. Anselme protects them from the monster Angramanyou, genie of underground fire, by delivering toys to him instead. Spiders threaten the women of the Moon, then different objects (household utensils, balloons) become animated, introduce themselves one after the other and dance. Anselme confesses his love to Lunaria, who grows and reveals herself to be Wilhelmine, the two women having been mistaken for one another in a dream. With Hans’s permission, Anselme and Wilhelmine decide to get married.

Glove-puppet

All audiences

Maurice Sand (Maurice Sand)

France

Nohant

Printed

Moon

Dream

Impossible love

Doll

Genie

Sleep

Shyness

Comical

Fantasy

Fantastic

Frontispiece for the volume containing the play Jouets et Mystères

French

Merchant (man)

Baroness

Young girl

Maid

Queen

Spider

Balai

Plumeau

Brosse

Balloon

Monologue

Love rivalry

Fight

Engulfment

Ballet

Dance

Replacement of one character by another

Plot twist

Apparition

Apparition of a genie

Chorus

Prosopopoeia

Jouets et mystères

Toys and Mysteries

The old streets of Madrid sing, then comes the Mayor who announces the opening of a new street. The old streets protest and pretend to be the more beautiful ones, but the Mayor calms them down. Three thieves appear and vanish as they see a Guard with a cage. The Mayor comes again and suggest to go to the sea-shore, where sailors sing a serenade, then he invites everyone to go to the official opening of the new street. The performance ends with a final song.

Not specified

Nino Pozzo (Matteo Pozzo)

Italy

Verona

Typed or electronic text with handwritten annotations

Zarzuela

Madrid

Official opening

City

Spain

Nino Pozzo, La Gran Via (Cover page).

Italian

Knight

Thief

Mayor

Choir

Street

Prison guard

Song

Aria

Avista

Final song

Allegory

La Gran Via

The Main Road

A dirty and emaciated Agneau (Lamb) is alone and followed by a Vautour (Vulture) waiting for him to die to eat him. The Agneau arrives in a pasture where he hopes to be taken in by a new Troupeau (Flock). The Troupeau asks him questions and reproaches him for having lied: he said at first that he did not know what had happened to his own flock, before admitting that they had all been killed. The Troupeau therefore refuses to take him in, and the sheep send the Patou – the sheepdog that watches over them – to chase him away. But the Patou knows the lonely Agneau’s original flock. In fact, he was raised there by Bella the ewe, whom he thinks of as her mother. As a consequence, he is convinced that the Agneau is his brother. Patou kisses him, tells him that he can stay in the Troupeau and that dogs and sheep are not different. He starts bleating to prove it and he teaches the Agneau how to bark.

Paris

Bourg-en-Bresse

Electronic text

Migrant

Refugees

Animal

Inclusion

Pity

Livestock

Identity

Hospitality

Dramatic

Anaïs Vaugelade, L'Agneau a menti, stage direction by Émilie Flacher, 2018.

Sheep

Tick

Vulture

Flower

Worm

Egg eclosion

Spying scene

Court scene

Scene of recognition

L'Agneau a menti

The Lamb has lied

A man comes on stage, crushed under the massive pillow he is carrying. He opens it and takes out heaps of fibre - orange, then blue, grey, etc. He scatters them around him until they cover the stage. The man is enthralled by all this matter and speaks to it, telling it about life in general. Little by little, he becomes lost in it.