A scene from Der Grüne Kakadu (The Green Cockatoo, 1899) written by the Austrian playwright Arthur Schnitzler (1862 - 1931) and produced by Franz Herterich (actor and director, 1877 - 1966) at the Burgtheater, Vienna in Austria, on February 2, 1930. Schnitzler's play was not publicly performed until 1920.
The Green Cockatoo (Der grüne Kakadu) is a one act grotesque by Arthur Schnitzler. It was written in 1898 and premiered on 1 March 1899, together with his plays Paracelsus and Die Gefährtin, at the Vienna Burgtheater. The play thematises the indistinguishability of truth and lies, of appearance and reality.

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