Jeune Lune recalled: Our theater scene will be darker when we c...

This is rather simple. A city (two in fact here) cannot claim to be the second most important theatre city in the country when a theatre like Jeune Lune is allowed to go under. Period. Civilization, what supposedly seperates humanity from the rest of God's creatures that are much more in tune with the enviroment tehy live in, which we are most definitely not, is the ability to imagine, strive to understand, and present God's stunning beauty to one another. The less we are able to understand and support that the less we understand our reason and place here. This is more thn tragic. It's dangerous to our very humanity and the future hope for further awakenings of the better part of our humanity. We should always strive to be better, to push to illuminations that have been left for us to reach and grasp. It is the Jeune Lunes, the Penumbras, 10,000 Things, Pill Houses, Mixed Bloods, etc. etc. etc. that improve the parts of our qualities of life, that bring to adults and children both, the secrets of the prescence of a higher way of living life, asking the questions we fear to ask out loud of one another, that has helped to bind us in knowledge and understanding, and has helped make this not the equal but a better place to raise chilfren out from ignorance. We can not let our attributes dwindle, for we dwindle along with them. Whether we know it or not. This losing of theatres has happened here before. The cities are poorer places for it. This cannot be allowed to continue. Too much has been lost. Nothing has been gained in losing such a theatre. When times are toughest is when you need the artist most, who will yell, rant, rage into that good night, willing to risk all so your humanity can not be ignored. Jeune Lune has risked all giving in the society of the Golden Calf that which cannot be sold, but bartered and shared. We have been and are better than this Twin Cities. The question is will we be in the future. As a native Minnesotan prideful of being one, I pray we can continue to lead our nation when it comes to helping define the heart and soul of a nation and world. Losing Jeune Lune is not just a retreat, but a surrender to the grotesque and the benighted witless of living and life.

Marion McClinton wrote:

This is rather simple. A city (two in fact here) cannot claim to be the second most important theatre city in the country when a theatre like Jeune Lune is allowed to go under. Period. Civilization, what supposedly seperates humanity from the rest of God's creatures that are much more in tune with the enviroment tehy live in, which we are most definitely not, is the ability to imagine, strive to understand, and present God's stunning beauty to one another. The less we are able to understand and support that the less we understand our reason and place here. This is more thn tragic. It's dangerous to our very humanity and the future hope for further awakenings of the better part of our humanity. We should always strive to be better, to push to illuminations that have been left for us to reach and grasp. It is the Jeune Lunes, the Penumbras, 10,000 Things, Pill Houses, Mixed Bloods, etc. etc. etc. that improve the parts of our qualities of life, that bring to adults and children both, the secrets of the prescence of a higher way of living life, asking the questions we fear to ask out loud of one another, that has helped to bind us in knowledge and understanding, and has helped make this not the equal but a better place to raise chilfren out from ignorance. We can not let our attributes dwindle, for we dwindle along with them. Whether we know it or not. This losing of theatres has happened here before. The cities are poorer places for it. This cannot be allowed to continue. Too much has been lost. Nothing has been gained in losing such a theatre. When times are toughest is when you need the artist most, who will yell, rant, rage into that good night, willing to risk all so your humanity can not be ignored. Jeune Lune has risked all giving in the society of the Golden Calf that which cannot be sold, but bartered and shared. We have been and are better than this Twin Cities. The question is will we be in the future. As a native Minnesotan prideful of being one, I pray we can continue to lead our nation when it comes to helping define the heart and soul of a nation and world. Losing Jeune Lune is not just a retreat, but a surrender to the grotesque and the benighted witless of living and life.

Ummm, yeah. Wow! Buh-Bye.

Marion McClinton wrote:

This is rather simple. A city (two in fact here) cannot claim to be the second most important theatre city in the country when a theatre like Jeune Lune is allowed to go under. Period. Civilization, what supposedly seperates humanity from the rest of God's creatures that are much more in tune with the enviroment tehy live in, which we are most definitely not, is the ability to imagine, strive to understand, and present God's stunning beauty to one another. The less we are able to understand and support that the less we understand our reason and place here. This is more thn tragic. It's dangerous to our very humanity and the future hope for further awakenings of the better part of our humanity. We should always strive to be better, to push to illuminations that have been left for us to reach and grasp. It is the Jeune Lunes, the Penumbras, 10,000 Things, Pill Houses, Mixed Bloods, etc. etc. etc. that improve the parts of our qualities of life, that bring to adults and children both, the secrets of the prescence of a higher way of living life, asking the questions we fear to ask out loud of one another, that has helped to bind us in knowledge and understanding, and has helped make this not the equal but a better place to raise chilfren out from ignorance. We can not let our attributes dwindle, for we dwindle along with them. Whether we know it or not. This losing of theatres has happened here before. The cities are poorer places for it. This cannot be allowed to continue. Too much has been lost. Nothing has been gained in losing such a theatre. When times are toughest is when you need the artist most, who will yell, rant, rage into that good night, willing to risk all so your humanity can not be ignored. Jeune Lune has risked all giving in the society of the Golden Calf that which cannot be sold, but bartered and shared. We have been and are better than this Twin Cities. The question is will we be in the future. As a native Minnesotan prideful of being one, I pray we can continue to lead our nation when it comes to helping define the heart and soul of a nation and world. Losing Jeune Lune is not just a retreat, but a surrender to the grotesque and the benighted witless of living and life.

Such big words. It is SEPARATES. That theater used to be a warehouse. It looks like a French prison from the outside. That was positive. I can't recall any recent plays by that theater group though.