Robert Wilson CocoRosie
Jungle Book based on « The Jungle Book » by Rudyard Kipling
© Lucie Jansch ©
© Lucie Jansch ©
© Lucie Jansch ©
© Lucie Jansch ©
Directed, set and lighting design by Robert Wilson
Music and lyrics, CocoRosie
With Teddy Chawa, William Edimo, Naïs El Fassi, Yuming Hey, Roberto Jean, Laetitia Lalle Bi Benie, Emma Liégeois, Jo Moss, Olga Mouak, François Pain-Douzenel
Musicians, Takuya Nakamura, Asya Sorshneva, Tez, and Douglas Wieselman
Costumes, Jacques Reynaud
Staging collaborator, Charles Chemin
Set collaborator, Annick Lavallée-Benny
Lighting collaborator, Marcello Lumaca
Costume collaborator, Pascale Paume
Make-up design, Manu Halligan
Sound design, Nick Sagar
Musical direction, Douglas Wieselman
Produced by Théâtre de la Ville - Paris
Coproduced by Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg – Les Nuits de Fourvière, Festival international de la Métropole de Lyon – Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Düsseldorf – Manchester International Festival – Teatro della Pergola, Florence – deSingel, Antwerp – Festspielhaus St. Pölten (AT)
Corealized by Théâtre de la Ville-Paris – Théâtre du Châtelet - Festival d’Automne à Paris
In association with EdM Productions - Elisabetta di Mambro
Following on from the long-standing friendship between Robert Wilson and the Festival d’Automne, this autumn, at the invitation of Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota, the American director Robert Wilson will be taking up a new challenge, that of adapting a tale that speaks to all audiences. His chosen work is The Jungle Book, this celebration of the child and the world of animals, and he will be revisiting it in the company of the musical duo CocoRosie
Now it is Robert Wilson’s turn to welcome into his unique onstage universe the figure of Mowgli, Rudyard Kipling’s heroic, abandoned jungle child. Part-opera and part-musical theatre, his Jungle Book brings to light the friendships and struggles that unite Baloo the bear, Bagheera the panther, and even Shere Khan the tiger. This is not the first time that the American director, who, once again, puts his name to the set and lighting design, tackles a work written for younger readers. His Peter Pan already saw him collaborating with the two CocoRosie sisters, and whose musical universe mixes folk and hip-hop, percussion and electronic music. Fascinated by childhood, this same duo which, in the past, transformed toys into musical instruments, now brings us a composition which is both demanding and playful. Carried along by a troop consisting of artists hailing from many different origins, Jungle Book definitely has something of the rite of passage about it and its themes – tolerance and humanity – are more relevant than ever. Drawing upon animal behaviour in the way he directs his actors, it is the occasion for Robert Wilson to confront audiences young and old alike with his brand of total theatre.
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Estimated running time : 1h10
Show suitable for children above 8 years old
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Performed in French and some English