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Theatre de la Jeune Lune
Theatre de la Jeune Lune is a company of theatre artists founded in France in 1978. Jeune Lune settled permanently in Minneapolis in 1985, after seven years of splitting its seasons between France and the United States. In the fall of 1992, after 14 years of peripatetic performance, the company moved into its permanent home in the renovated Allied Van Lines cold storage building in the Minneapolis warehouse district. From its anchor, Jeune Lune has toured in recent years to such prestigious venues as the Yale Repertory Theater, the La Jolla Playhouse, Trinity Repertory Theatre, and the Berkeley Repertory Theatre.
Its national and international reputation has expanded with such productions as Children of Paradise: Shooting a Dream, recipient of the American Theatre Critics Association’s 1993 New Play Award); Carlo Gozzi's The Green Bird; the play/opera Don Juan Giovanni; and the epic Germinal. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame received an AT&T: OnStage award. Jeune Lune's acclaimed 3 Musketeers was the hit of the 1997 Spoleto USA Festival in Charleston, South Carolina.
Jeune Lune (the name mean "theatre of the new moon") strives to link a past heritage of popular performance traditions -- from circus and classical farce to commedia dell’arte and vaudeville -- to a present function within the local community and the larger international community of cultural production. While embracing the "old moon" of theatrical tradition, Jeune Lune seeks to create an entirely new kind of theatre that is immediate, high-spirited, passionately physical, and visually spectacular.
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