Full of joy, authenticity and a celebration of the original text, the writing in The Jungle Book: Rudyard Revised brings a contemporary relevance and sparkle to this beloved story. Mindful of the 128 years that have passed since the original book’s publication, the show invites a contemporary fictionalized Kipling in to explore the question “if you were able to redeem your colonialist reputation and rewrite the tale as a storyteller of our times, what might you revise?”

The two narrators literally reframe the classic tale of Mowgli and the tiger, Bhaalu, Bagheera and the monkeys, and in the process the playwrights reclaim this beloved tale and recenter its original muse - the jungles of India.