Synopsis

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.