Maurice Maeterlinck

The Blue Bird Maurice Maeterlinck

The Blue Bird (Or, A Fairy Play in Six Acts) by Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist, Maurice Maeterlinck was originally published in 1901, as translated into English by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. The work is a play that premiered on the 30th of September 1908, at Konstantin Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre, and was presented on Broadway in 1910. The work is a story of a brother and sister who help a little girl whose illness can only be cured by the magical Blue Bird of Happiness. To find the bird, Mytyl and Tyltyl quest through the Land of Memory to the Palace of Night. The children get help from the good fairy Bérylune.