Jungle Book

Aurore Deon (Hathi the Elephant) - French version

Photograph © Lucie Jansch

Olga Mouak (Bagheera the Panther), Roberto Jean (Shere Khan the Tiger) - French version

Photograph © Lucie Jansch

Düsseldorf Ensemble - German version

Rosa Enskat (Hathi the Elephant), Thomas Wittmann (Kaa the Snake), Cennet Rüya Voß (Mowgli), Felicia Chin-Malenski (Tabaqui the Jackal), Sebastian Tessenow (Shere Khan the Tiger), Judith Bohle (Raskha - Mama Wolf), Ron Iyamu (Akela - Papa Wolf), André Kaczmarczyk (Bagheera the Panther), Georgios Tsivanoglou (Baloo the Bear)

Photograph © Lucie Jansch

Rosa Enskat (Hathi the Elephant)

Photograph © Lucie Jansch

Judith Bohle (Raskha - Mama Wolf), Ron Iyamu (Akela - Papa Wolf), André Kaczmarczyk (Bagheera the Panther), Sebastian Tessenow (Shere Khan the Tiger) - German version

Photograph © Lucie Jansch

Roberto Jean (Shere Khan the Tiger), Gaël Sall (Akela - Papa Wolf), Olga Mouak (Bagheera the Panther), Yuming Hey (Mowgli) - French version

Photograph © Lucie Jansch

Georgios Tsivanoglou (Baloo the Bear), Cennet Rüya Voß (Mowgli), Thomas Wittmann (Kaa the Snake) - German version

Photograph © Lucie Jansch

Gaël Sall (Akela - Papa Wolf), Nancy Nkusi (Raskha - Mama Wolf), Yuming Hey (Mowgli), Jo Moss (Buldeo the Hunter), Aurore Deon (Hathi the Elephant) - French version

Photograph © Lucie Jansch

Yuming Hey (Mowgli) - French version

Photograph © Lucie Jansch

Judith Bohle (Raskha - Mama Wolf), Sebastian Tessenow (Shere Khan the Tiger), Cennet Rüya Voß (Mowgli), Ron Iyamu (Akela - Papa Wolf) - German version

Photograph © Lucie Jansch

Jo Moss (Monkey) - French version

Photograph © Lucie Jansch

Tabea Bettin (Messua), Cennet Rüya Voß (Mowgli), Takao Baba (Buldeo the Hunter) - German version

Photograph © Lucie Jansch

Judith Bohle (Raskha - Mama Wolf), Ron Iyamu (Akela - Papa Wolf), Cennet Rüya Voß (Mowgli), Thomas Wittmann (Kaa the Snake) - German version

Photograph © Lucie Jansch

N. Nkusi (Raskha), G. Sall (Akela), Jo Moss (Monkey), F. Pain-Douzenel (Baloo), Y. Hey (Mowgli), R. Jean (Shere Khan), O. Mouak (Bagheera), N. El-Fassi (Kaa), A. Deon (Hathi) - French version

Photograph © Lucie Jansch

By Robert Wilson and CocoRosie
Based on "The Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling (1894)

Costumes by Jacques Reynaud

Opening on April 26, 2019 at the Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg, Luxembourg (French version)
Opening on October 19, 2019 at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Düsseldorf, Germany (German version)

After Peter Pan (Berlin, 2013), Pushkin's Fairy Tales (Moscow, 2015) and Edda (Oslo, 2017), Robert Wilson joins forces again with the surreal folk duo CocoRosie for a retelling of Kipling’s famous collection of stories, "The Jungle Book." A project initiated by Théâtre de la Ville Paris, it had its world première in Luxembourg in 2019. In this production, a cast of young performers inhabit the visual landscapes of Robert Wilson and the unique sound of CocoRosie for a music theater production aimed at family audiences.

When asked to direct The Jungle Book, Wilson said: 'The Jungle Book' is a work for all ages. I always liked what Baudelaire said: 'Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will'.