"The Island of the Blessed" "A comedic piece in four acts by Arthur Kahane" "Staged by Max Reinhardt" "Characters in the play:" "The Men:" "The Two Fathers:" "The Good Father:" "Wilhelm Diegelmann" "The Violent Father:" "Willy Prager" "The two girls:" "The Lively One (daughter of the Good Father) Gertrud Hackelberg" "The Shy One (daughter of the Violent Father) Lore Wagner" "The two boys:" "The Brazen One:" "Werner Lotz" "The Dreamer:" "Ernst Hofmann" "The two bachelors:" "The Sullen One:" "Friedrich Kühne" "The Distracted One:" "Ernst Matray" "The gods" "Galatea, goddess of the tides:" "Mary Dietrich" "Love:" "Erika de Planque" "Psyche:" "Greta Schröder" "Circe, the nymph:" "Konstantin Leopoldine" "The Faun:" "Ernst Matray" "A Sea God:" "Wilhelm Diegelmann" "Triton, another sea god:" "Willy Prager" "A demon of the waters:" "Friedrich Kühne" "ACT 1" "The girls, how they saw the sea for the first time and loved it." "Onward!" "The boys" "The first meeting" "Parents" "What a strange thing, the sea." "There are the girls!" "The bachelors" "The first time at the beach." "One cannot be too careful." "Old friends" "A good idea." "Let's play cards!" "Bored bourgeois!" "Onward, into the sea!" "Come out into the world of the gods!" "To this uncharted island." "Bacchanalia" "Act 2 The Island of the Blessed" "Men in sight!" "When four young men meet, they create and increase the Love god's wrath" "Wait, foolish humans, and I'll show you!" "I bring down all of nature on you!" "How love makes all in nature rebels with its arrows and inflames the sons of men." "The struggle between the god of the sea and the Faun for the girl." "Galatea soothes the tides" "Circe and the Brazen One" "4th Act The Island of the Blessed" "The arrival after a difficult journey" "How nature and the gods meet the bourgeois" ""Who has given you this beautiful forest ..."" "How the rogue, Love, entangles all and provokes an engagement of the bourgeois" "Circe and the old men" "How Galatea took back Love's arrows and Psyche cleverly got them back" "How Love's arrows can overcome even the sublime Galatea" "Galatea and the troubled boy" "To my beloved girl forgive me for my dreams, just bold delusions." "Even as a blessed one, minutes creep by in cruel steps of blessed daring and show in the soft tides my death and oblivion" "The triumphal procession of Love" "END"