[1][2] As a child, Blixen wrote a number of plays which she performed with her sisters and friends.
In 1986, Ib Nørholm adapted the play as an opera which was presented at the Østre Gasværk Theatre in 1986 as well as in Odense and Aarhus.
[3] It tells of how an innkeeper suffers from his lies as he plans to rob and murder a young man from the country.
As a result of a witch's curse, the following day the lies are revealed as the truth, the idea being that the characters do not know who they really are until the curtain falls.
[1] An English translation of the play by Donald Hannah titled The Revenge of Truth: A Marionette Comedy was published in the Performing Arts Journal in 1986.