THE JEUNE LUNE CREDO
We are a theatre of directness, a theatre that speaks to its audience, that listens and needs a response. We believe that theatre is an event. We are a theatre of emotions -- an immediate theatre -- a theatre that excites and uses a direct language -- a theatre of the imagination.
COMING FULL CIRCLE
Our name -- "Theatre of the New Moon" -- reflects our commitment to finding theatrical sustenance by looking for the new in the old. The name comes from a little poem by Bertolt Brecht:
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As the people say, at the moon's change of phases The new moon holds for one night long The old moon in its arms. |
The strong and tender care that the future shows for the past describes
the dialectic that informs all of Jeune Lune's work: striving 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.
