A two-act play 7+
More than a hundred years ago Maurice Maeterlinck, a Belgian playwright, wrote the play The Blue Bird; since then the Blue Bird has become a symbol of elusive happiness. To this day people keep searching for this mystical creature, in the hope that they will be able to catch and cage it, or, in other words, they are trying to grab their fortune and keep it forever, without realizing that they do not need to chase it, but should rather learn to recognize it.
The play The Blue Bird by National Kaunas Drama Theatre recreates the Nobel Prize Laureate Maeterlinck’s allegoric tale about two children who are charged with the task of finding and catching the Blue Bird on a dark Christmas night. The children set out on an adventurous and magical journey to fantastic worlds, palaces, and gardens. However, the resolution and courage to cover long distances, encounter the powers of Light and Shade, and Good and Evil, are not sufficient to find the Blue Bird: recognizing it requires a simple yet miraculous capability – being able to see the invisible.
