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Fairy Play

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Fairy Play 

(in French, féerie). (1) A type of play based on the use of stage effects, stunts, and transformation scenes. Special stage machinery and sound and lighting effects are used to depict fantastic or unusual events.

The fairy play originated in Italy in the 17th century and underwent further development in Great Britain. Many operas and ballets, as well as theatrical performances at fairs in France in the 17th and 18th centuries, were similar to fairy plays. In the early 19th century fairy plays were staged in Russia in balagans (seeBALAGAN) at open-air gatherings. The fairy plays staged in the second half of the 19th century by the director M. V. Lentovskii and the stage engineer K. F. Val’ts were marked by spectacular stage effects and brilliant inventiveness.

(2) A circus performance that uses varied stage effects.
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Buccola goes on to show how, through the fairy play staged in the final scene, Shakespeare is able to comment obliquely on religious reform and allow a female character (Anne Page) to broker her own marriage.
Fairies, Fractious Women, and the Old Faith: Fairy Lore in Early ... by Woodcock, Matthew / Renaissance Quarterly
In spite of Hazlitt's warning a century ago that 'the boards of the theatre and the regions of fancy are not the same thing', Christopher Wood, in this very beautiful book, which is joyful in both its remarkable contents and its illustrations, can point out that throughout the Victorian period, and in spite of Hazlitt, there was certainly no lack of productions of Shakespeare's fairy plays.
Fairies who inspired artists; The Victorians desperately wanted to ... by Edmonds, Richard / The Birmingham Post (England)
His amorphous ideas sometimes made for pretty static staging, but Maeterlinck scored an international hit with ``L'Oiseau Bleu'' (``The Blue Bird'') a 1908 fairy play first produced by Konstantin Stanislavsky at the Moscow Art Theatre.
THEATER/SNEAK PEEK : FOR THOSE DEMANDING THEIR MAETERLINCK .. by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
 
 
 
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