L'OISEAU BLEU

:''For other literary works called The Blue Bird or L'Oiseau Bleu, see The Blue Bird.
'''L'Oiseau bleu''' ('''The Blue Bird''') is a 1908 play by Maurice Maeterlinck. It premiered on 30 September 1908 at Stanislavsky's Moscow Art Theatre and has been turned into several films and a TV series.
The story is about a girl called ''Mytyl'' and her brother ''Tyltyl'' seeking happiness, represented by ''The Blue Bird of Happiness'', aided by the good fairy ''Bérylune''.
Maeterlinck also wrote a relatively little known sequel to ''L'Oiseau bleu'', entitled ''The Blue Bird and the Betrothal''.

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Film and TV adaptions

References in other works

Other references

Film and TV adaptions

References in other works

;''RahXephon'':Blue birds appear as symbols and one of the characters is named "Michiru", which is the Japanese name for Mytyl.
;''Eureka Seven'': Three of the characters were named after the author's name, his surname being divided: Maurice, the eldest of Eureka's children; Maeter, the second oldest; and Linck, the youngest. The book itself also appears briefly in the series being read by one of the characters.
;''The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya'': Kyon seemingly randomly asks Haruhi if she has read ''The Bluebird of Happiness''. This initially appears to be a random reference, however it has since been noted that the Land of Memory, the Palace of Night and the Kingdom of the Future which appear in ''L'Oiseau bleu'' may each correspond to one of Haruhi's three unusual companions (the aliens, the espers, and the time travellers, respectively.)
;''Ballet Shoes'': Pauline and Petrova Fossil, two of the principal characters of the 1936 children's book by Noel Streatfeild (and the subsequent 1975 BBC television adaptation of the tale) play Tyltyl and Mytyl in their ballet academy's production of "The Blue Bird".

Other references

The Dutch school types Mytyl schools and Tyltyl schools are named after Mytyl and Tyltyl: they are for children with a physical disability and for children with both a physical and mental disability, respectively. The Scouting Nederland section for children with special needs (Extension Scouting) is named: "Blauwe Vogels" (Blue Birds).