March 25-April 11, 2010
Directed by Peter Kappler

Adapted by Edward Mast. Winner of AATE Distinguished Play Award.

Based on the Mowgli stories of Rudyard Kipling, this dramatization places the jungle of India on a children's playground. The unit set is a jungle-gym; the animals are costumed as playground characters. The dialogue and action refer to the jungle, but the play draws color and style from a child's intense world of playfulness, loyalty, adventure, and betrayal.

Mowgli the humanchild grows up in the Jungal, raised by wolves under the guidance of Baloo the bear. The tiger Sherakhan killed the parents and wants the boy's flesh, but Bagheera the lone panther protects him. Mowgli grows up wild and unconcerned, believing he's a wolf; but the Tiger works long and hard to poison the wolfpack against him. With rope stolen from the human village, Mowgli meets and destroys Sherakhan; but his use of "manthing" has broken Jungal Law. Mowgli must choose whether to defy the Law or leave the Jungal forever.

All performances are at the Black Box Theater, at The Kenneth J. Minnaert Center for the Arts at South Puget Sound Community College.