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Hans Christian Andersen Centre. Hans Christian Andersen (/ ˈændərsən / AN-dər-sən; Danish: [ˈhænˀs ˈkʰʁestjæn ˈɑnɐsn̩] ⓘ; 2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875) was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his literary fairy tales.
Date premiered. 30 September 1908. (1908-09-30) The Blue Bird (French: L'Oiseau bleu) is a 1908 play by Belgian playwright and poet Maurice Maeterlinck. It premiered on 30 September 1908 at Konstantin Stanislavski 's Moscow Art Theatre, and was presented on Broadway in 1910. The play has been adapted for several films and a TV series.
T. Tom Thumb (play) The Tragedy of Tragedies. Categories: Plays based on works. Works based on fairy tales.
Peter Pan is one of the protagonists of the play and the novel. He is described in the novel as a young boy who still has all his first teeth; he wears clothes made of leaves (autumn leaves in the play, skeleton leaves in the novel) and plays the pipes. He is the only boy able to fly without the help of Tinker Bell's fairy dust.
The tailor provokes the giants. " The Brave Little Tailor " or " The Valiant Little Tailor " or " The Gallant Tailor" (German: Das tapfere Schneiderlein) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm (KHM 20). "The Brave Little Tailor" is a story of Aarne–Thompson Type 1640, with individual episodes classified in other story types.
The short is the first is an adaptation of the fairy tale by Disney with Mickey Mouse in the title role. [22] It was the 62nd Mickey Mouse short film, and the twelfth of that year. [23] In 1947 Mickey and the Beanstalk was released as part of Fun and Fancy Free.
Peer Gynt (/ pɪər ˈɡɪnt /, Norwegian: [peːr ˈjʏnt, - ˈɡʏnt]) [a] is a five- act play in verse written in 1867 by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen. It is one of Ibsen's best known and most widely performed plays. Peer Gynt chronicles the journey of its title character from the Norwegian mountains to the North African desert and back.
Among his most prominent fairy‐tale plays are Blaubart (Bluebeard, 1845), Schattenspiel (Shadow Play, 1847), Hänsel und Gretel (Hansel and Gretel, 1861), Zaubergeige (The Magic Violin, 1868), Eulenschloss (The Castle of Owls, 1869), Kasperl wird reich (Punch Becomes Rich, 1872). Pocci combined comic features of the Punch and Judy shows with ...