Theatre de la Jeune Lune

Theatre de la Jeune Lune was founded in France in 1978 by Parisians Dominique Serrand, Vincent Gracieux and Minneapolis native Barbra Berlovitz. A short while later, the three were joined by Minneapolitan Robert Rosen. All are graduates of the renowned theatre school Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris, and jointly assumed the Artistic Director duties of Theatre de la Jeune Lune. Steven Epp joined the company as Artistic Associate in 1983 and was asked to join the founders as co-Artistic Director in 2001.

Jeune Lune settled permanently in Minneapolis in 1985, after seven years of splitting their seasons between France and the United States. In the fall of 1992, after fourteen years of peripatetic performance, the company moved into the renovated Allied Van Lines cold storage building in the Minneapolis warehouse district, and called it home until the summer of 2008.


Michal Daniel

This book contains images from the first seventeen Jeune Lune productions photographed by Michal Daniel. In 1980 Theatre de la Jeune Lune invited Michal Daniel to photograph their company. Since then, he has become a live entertainment documentarian. Proofsheet.com is his growing on-line archive, now the largest individual collection of theatre images on the web.

The 7x7 inch book contains over 300 photos--one per page--from the following Theatre de la Jeune Lune productions:

1983:
THE KITCHEN
1990:
IL CAMPIELLO
SOME PEOPLE'S KIDS
1991:
PUNTILA AND HIS CHAUFFEUR MATTI
1992:
THE CHILDREN OF PRADISE
1993:
THE GREEN BIRD
SCAPIN
1994:
DON JUAN GIOVANNI
GEMINAL
THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE-DAME
1995:
PELLEAS AND MELISANDE
1997:
THE KITCHEN
THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS, CINEMAMERICA & LIFELIBERTY
1998:
TWELFTH NIGHT
1999:
TARTUFFE
THE MAGIC FLUTE
2000:
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR