ABSTRACT
Robert Wilson transcends the question of human authenticity through the free play and song of the child and his imaginary creations. Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, directed by Robert Wilson, reinvents the well-known saga and creates an enchanting and joyful spectacle of the soul of the child and the rhythmic dramas of the natural-animal existence of man with playful music by CocoRosie. The biological conception of man can be extended ad absurdum via different animal metaphors, such as the swine was, for Artaud, connected with linguistic simple-mindedness, which is so important to Valere Novarina’s language-creating motifs as well. Animal metaphors connected to spirituality come, one after the other, a dog borrowed from another play, and the ritual and comic scene of the large family played using two puppets from an earlier play, with song inserts that are familiar.
