L'Oiseau Bleu
L'Oiseau Bleu is a 1908 play by Belgian author Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949)[1].
Contents
The original text
Translations and adaptations
The Blue Bird: a fairy play in six acts translated from the French by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos.
Performance history in South Africa
(circa 1933): Hermien Dommisse directed a production of this play for Pretoria Girls High School while a pupil there.
1951: Presented by the Brian Brooke Company in October 1951 at the Hofmeyr Theatre, Cape Town.
1977: The Bluebird of Happiness presented by Imps Drama Workshop and Bergvliet Dramatic Society at MOTH Hall, Bergvliet, directed by Lieske Bester.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Maeterlinck
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Bird_(play)
Research material on Brian Brooke held by NELM: [Collection: ASCH, Valda]: 2005. 65. 7. 8.
Greyvenstein, Walter 1988. The history and development of children's theatre in English in South Africa. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Johannesburg: Rand Afrikaans University.
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