Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy
_The cottage-scene in The Blue Bird: the interior of a wood-cutter's cabin, simple and rustic in appearance, but in no way poverty-stricken. A recessed fireplace containing the dying embers of a wood-fire. Kitchen-utensils, a cupboard, a bread-pan, a grandfather's clock, a spi...
_The cottage-scene in The Blue Bird: the interior of a wood-cutter's cabin, simple and rustic in appearance, but in no way poverty-stricken. A recessed fireplace containing the...
10. SCENE VII_A large open space, under an Elysian light, which imparts to all things an aspect of ethereal and lasting felicity and unchanging gladness. The back and the two sides of the sq...
12. SCENE IX_The immense halls, the lofty vaults, the infinite perspectives of arches and columns of the Kingdom of the Future in "The Blue Bird"; but this time, it being the nuptial hour,...
7. SCENE IV_A sort of waiting-room or lumber-room containing the principal accessories of the Tales of Mother Goose: Cinderella's pumpkin and glass slipper; Red Ridinghood's cake and bowl;...
14. SCENE XIWait, wait, till I slip on my breeches.... (_Rising and seeing with amazement that he is dressed_.) Hullo, I've gone to bed with my clothes on! How did I come to do that?...
6. SCENE III(_The heavy doors open in the middle, slide right and left and disappear in the slips, revealing the whole of_ THE MISER'S _den, an immense cave with low arches in which are pil...
9. SCENE VI(_Bending over a crevice_.) You're not like Destiny, who has almost given out.... He's still at the bottom of the last precipice, with my little friends.... He stumbles at every...
13. SCENE XResults?... Where?... When we started I was in love with six girls; now we've returned, I love only one; and she's just the one who hasn't come back with me.... But where are th...
11. SCENE VIIINear to the stars and yet within yourself. Before you is the great veil of the Milky Way. Beyond it stretches the region in which your unborn children are waiting to show you th...
5. SCENE II_The curtain represents a huge double door surmounted with a flattened arch. The door is old, thick and massive, unyielding, bound and studded with iron bars and nails. In the m...
8. SCENE V(_All that remains standing is the columns and aisles forming the portico of an immense, luminous room, which might have been hewn and carved out of a mountain of amber. Under t...
3. ACT V1. ACT II2. ACT IV