

The Jungle Book
Briandaniel Oglesby


Adapted from the stories by Rudyard Kipling.
Mowgli, the "man-cub", lost in the jungle, is rescued from the clutches of the fearsome tiger, Shere Khan, by Baloo the bear and Bagheera the black panther.
Brought up with a family of wolf-cubs, the time eventually comes for Mowgli to return to the world of Man.
But Mowgli is not finished with the jungle, for one day he returns to settle the score with Shere Khan...Large flexible cast
"There's something that just screams" - and also howls, caws, roars, shrieks, hisses - theatre about the coming-of-age situation in which young Mowgli, the 'man-cub' of Rudyard Kipling's celebrated Jungle Book stories, finds himself...[The Jungle Book] introduces a whole bunch of contemporary resonances - including ecological themes, the notion of belonging, [and] the folly of judging worth by appearance."
— Edmonton Journal
"Power has synthesized the stories into a clear and decisive one-act play."
— The Gazette, Montreal
"The strength of the collective imagination is most definitely on display in Tracey Power's theatrical edition of The Jungle Book...the message of the importance of friends and family emerges effortlessly in this lush, colourful introduction to the ways of the jungle."
— SEE Edmonton
| Character |
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Actor 2 Bagheera, Father Wolf, Monkey 3, Shere Khan |
Actor 3 Mowgli, Young Mowgli Puppeteer |
Actress 1 Raksha, Akela, Kaa, Monkey 2 |
Actress 2 Tabaqui, Monkey 1 |
Actor 1 Baloo, Monkey King, Human, Shere Khan |
The Jungle Book is a adaptation play written by Rudyard Kipling and published by Samuel French (1986).
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Samuel French · 1986 · 58 pp
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