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_A Bugbear_
_A Peace-maker_
_The Playwright_
_A Soldier_
_Two Hussars_
_Two Lovers_
_Servants_
_Musicians_
_A Peasant_
_The Prompter_
_A Shoemaker_
_A Historian_
FISCHER
MuLLER
BoTTICHER
LEUTNER
WIESENER
WIESENER'S NEIGHBOR
_Elephants_
_Lions_
_Bears_
_An officer_
_Eagles and other birds_
_A rabbit_
_Partridges_
_Jupiter_
_Terkaleon_
_The Machinist_
_Spirits_
_Monkeys_
_The Public_.
[Ill.u.s.tration: #LUDWIG TIECK# VOGEL VON VOGELSTEIN]
PROLOGUE
_The scene is laid in the pit, the candles are already lighted, the musicians are gathered in the orchestra. The theatre is filled, people talking in confusion, some arriving, etc_.
FISCHER, MuLLER, SCHLOSSER, BoTTICHER, _in the pit_
FISCHER.
Say, but I am curious, Herr Muller, what do you think of today's play?
MuLLER.
I should be more likely to expect the sky to fall in than to see such a play at our theatre.
FISCHER.
Do you know the play?
MuLLER.
Not at all. A strange t.i.tle that: _Puss in Boots_. I do hope they're not going to present that child's play at the theatre.
SCHLOSS.
Why, is it an opera?
FISCHER.
Anything but that; the bill says: _A Fairy-tale for Children_.
SCHLOSS.
A fairy-tale? But in Heaven's name, we're not children, are we, that they want to present such pieces for us? They certainly won't put an actual cat on the stage, will they?
