ABSTRACT
Peoples are to stage a dream, a fancy, an intimation, a fairy tale. The Blue Bird is a fabric of lace. Man is surrounded by the mysterious, terrifying, magnificent, and incomprehensible. This mysteriousness, or unintelligibility, bears down most heavily on the young, the vital, those who are most aquiver with life on this earth, or it scatters snow on the heads of the helpless blind, or it astounds and dazzles us with its beauties. People live amid material blessings, are further and further removed from spiritual, contemplative life. Only a few chosen ones possess as their own this spiritual joy. To children high joys and pure dreams are accessible. That is why Maeterlinck surrounded himself with children in The Blue Bird and went off with them on a journey through mysterious worlds. May the grandchildren, when they return to their homes, experience a joy in being alive, as do Tyltyl and Mytyl in the last act of the play.
