The Blue Bird: A Fairy Play in Six Acts: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Blue Bird: A Fairy Play in Six Acts, credited to Maurice Maeterlinck, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Blue Bird: A Fairy Play in Six Acts by Maurice Maeterlinck. (Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos.) Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. The Blue Bird is a 1908 play by Belgian author Maurice Maeterlinck. On the night of Christmas a boy and a girl, Tyltil and Mytil, are visited by Fairy Berilyuna. Fairy's granddaughter is sick and can only be saved by the Blue Bird. Thanks to the Fairy's magic gift children have the opportunity to see the soul of things. Inanimate objects Clocks, Fire, Water, Bread, Sugar, Milk transformed into beings with their own character. Together, they set off on a dangerous journey for the fabulous Blue Bird. The play is inspired with the deep idea of the author "be brave enough to see the hidden." - Summary by ShiNeko, Wikipedia Cast List: Tyltyl: KHand Mytyl/ The Child One: Beth Thomas The Fairy/ The Neighbour: Kathy Wright The Dog/ Granny Tyl/ Gaffer Tyl: Ron Altman The Cat: ToddHW Light / the little Girl: Amanda Friday Bread/ The Loaf: tovarisch Fire: Chuck Williamson Water: Sarah Alaine Swart Sugar: Mary Kay Milk: Etel Buss Daddy Tyl/ The Oak/ The Luxury: Arnaldo Machado Mummy Tyl/ Maternal Love: Rebecca Braunert-Plunkett The Brothers and Sisters Tyl: Megan Clavie-Parker, April Walters, Lydia, MaryAnnS, TriciaG, Tomas Peter Night/ The Child Thirteen: Availle The Poplar/ The Sheep: Frances Brown The Lime-Tree/ The Child Ten: Elizabeth Klett The Willow/ The Joy of Understanding: Etel Buss The Fir-Tree: Ashur Gharavi The Chestnut-Tree/ The Ass: Mark Chulsky The Beech/ The Elm/ The Child Seven/ The Child Twelve: Phil Chenevert The Cypress: Amy Gramour The Ivy/ The Child Eleven: April Walters The Rabbit / The First Child of Lovers: Sarah Alaine Swart The Cock: David Purdy The Horse/ The Child Three: MaryAnnS The Bull: Algy Pug The Ox: Oxenhandler The Cow/ The Child Fifteen: Lydia The Pig: Miriam Esther Goldman The Wolf: Dillon McFarlane The Happiness: Savannah The Joy of Being Just: Valerie Becker The Joy of seeing what is Beautiful: Little Tee The Child Two /The Second Child of Lovers: Rosslyn Carlyle The Child Four: Sarah Jennings The Child Five/ The Child with the Melons: TriciaG The Child Six: Abby The Child Eight: Rachel The Child Fourteen: Tomas Peter The Child Sixteen: Saffie Time: Jason Mills Stage Directions: MaryAnnS, Anastasiia Solokha Editors: TriciaG , MaryAnnS and Anastasiia Solokha

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Blue Bird: A Fairy Play in Six Acts
• Author credits: Maurice Maeterlinck
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 13
• Listed recording duration: 3:37:31

Catalogue topics

• children
• play
• fairy
• blue bird
• maeterlinck
• teixeira de mattos
• happiness

Track guide

1. 00 - Costumes — 8:25
2. 01 - ACT 1. The Woodcutter's Cottage — 28:26
3. 02 - ACT 2. SCENE 1 - At the Fairy's — 13:50
4. 03 - ACT 2. SCENE 2 - The Land of Memory — 17:45
5. 04 - ACT 3. SCENE 1 - The Palace of Night — 26:35
6. 05 - ACT 3. SCENE 2 - The Forest — 30:12
7. 06 - ACT 4. SCENE 1 - Before the Curtain — 3:34
8. 07 - ACT 4. SCENE 2 - The Palace of Happiness — 29:23
9. 08 - ACT 5. SCENE 1 - Before the Curtain — 3:17
10. 09 - ACT 5. SCENE 2 - The Graveyard — 4:59
11. 10 - ACT 5. SCENE 3 - The Kingdom of the Future — 23:17
12. 11 - ACT 6. SCENE 1 - The Leave-taking — 12:50
13. 12 - ACT 6. SCENE 2 - The Awakening — 14:58

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