D.
SCENES
ACT I. The market-place in Hamelin
ACT II. SCENE I. Inside the 'Hollow-Hill'
SCENE II. The Cross-ways
ACT III. The Cross-ways
ACT IV. The market-place in Hamelin
One week is supposed to elapse between Acts I and II.
Acts II and III occupy one day.
Act IV concerns the following morning.
The Piper
ACT I
SCENE: The market-place of Hamelin. Right, the Minster, with
an open shrine (right centre) containing a large sculptured
figure of the Christ. Right, farther front, the house of KURT;
and other narrow house-fronts. Left, the Rathaus, and (down)
the home of JACOBUS. Front, to left and right, are corner-houses
with projecting stories and casement windows. At the centre rear,
a narrow street leads away between houses whose gables all but
meet overhead.
It is late summer afternoon, with a holiday crowd. In the open
casements, front (right and left, opposite each other), sit
OLD URSULA and OLD CLAUS, looking on at men and things.
--In the centre of the place now stands a rude wooden Ark with
a tented top: and out of the openings (right and left) appear
the artificial heads of animals, worn by the players inside.
One is a Bear (inhabited by MICHAEL-THE-SWORD-EATER); one is a
large Reynard-the-Fox, later apparent as the PIPER. Close by is
the medieval piece of stage-property known as 'Hell-Mouth,' i.
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