Bleeding Blue Bird
A theater company's production of "The Blue Bird" spirals into chaos after a cast member vanishes. As outsiders join the show, the line between performance and reality blurs, transforming a play into…
Bleeding Blue Bird
A theater company's production of "The Blue Bird" spirals into chaos after a cast member vanishes. As outsiders join the show, the line between performance and reality blurs, transforming a play into an exploration of the human nature. A travelling theatre troupe tours with an English language performance of Maurice Maeterlinck's masterpiece, The Blue Bird. After a lead performer is abducted, the director is forced to take over his role and the production is infiltrated by outsiders with an unknown, disruptive agenda. The search for the Bluebird of Happiness takes on an ominous tone as the actors in this family-oriented play are compelled to push the material to explore darker philosophical themes of human nature explicitly on stage. As each show bleeds into reality, they each begin to embody and subvert their archetypal roles. The repetition of rehearsal, tension of performance, and the striving for a unique artistic rapture enters their dreams and precipitates a shocking descent into corruption and madness. —Michael Riley
Bleeding Blue Bird
Drama,Thriller
Film Details
A theater company's production of "The Blue Bird" spirals into chaos after a cast member vanishes. As outsiders join the show, the line between performance and reality blurs, transforming a play into an exploration of the human nature. A travelling theatre troupe tours with an English language performance of Maurice Maeterlinck's masterpiece, The Blue Bird.
After a lead performer is abducted, the director is forced to take over his role and the production is infiltrated by outsiders with an unknown, disruptive agenda. The search for the Bluebird of Happiness takes on an ominous tone as the actors in this family-oriented play are compelled to push the material to explore darker philosophical themes of human nature explicitly on stage. As each show bleeds into reality, they each begin to embody and subvert their archetypal roles.
The repetition of rehearsal, tension of performance, and the striving for a unique artistic rapture enters their dreams and precipitates a shocking descent into corruption and madness. —Michael Riley.