At the Théâtre Kléber-Méleau in Renens, a legendary “Blue Bird” is still showing its magic

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At the Théâtre Kléber-Méleau in Renens, a legendary “Blue Bird” is still showing its magic

Benjamin Knobil revives the theatrical magic of the Nobel Prize for Literature Maurice Maeterlinck. A young troupe shines in dreamland, between a musical comedy and a Fellinian orgy. Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949) is said to have fallen from his perch in front of his Blue Bird, which has been flying again, with panache, at the Théâtre Kléber-Méléeau in Renens since Tuesday. The Belgian writer, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1911, in love with be…