The Blue Bird is a 1908 play by Belgian playwright and poet Maurice Maeterlinck. It premiered on 30 September 1908 at Konstantin Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre, and was presented on Broadway in 1910. The play has been adapted for several films and a TV series. The French composer Albert Wolff wrote an opera based on Maeterlinck's original play, and Maeterlinck's inamorata Georgette Leblanc produced a novelization.
Mytyl (Alisa Koonen) and Tyltyl (Sofya Khalyutina) in the Moscow Art Theatre production (1908)
Tyltyl (Gladys Hulette) and Mytyl (Irene Brown) watch the Christmas party across the street in the Broadway production of The Blue Bird (1910)
The Mysterious Garden, 1911, by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh
Maurice Maeterlinck commemorative coin
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1908.
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Cover of Robert Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys, 1st part