Staging The Jungle Book at Phoenix Arena

The play, ‘The Jungle Book’, an adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s book ‘Jungle Book’ will be staged on January 24 at Phoenix Arena from 7pm. The play revolves around Mowgli, a ‘man cub’ raised by the wolf Raksha and her pack, led by Akela, in an Indian jungle ever since he was brought to them as an infant by the black panther Bagheera. Bagheera trains Mowgli to learn the ways of the wolves, but the boy faces certain challenges and falls behind his wolf siblings, while Akela disapproves of him using human ‘tricks’, like building tools, instead of learning the ways of the pack.

One day, during the dry season, the jungle animals gather to drink the water that remains as part of a truce during a drought that enables the jungle’s wildlife to drink without fear of being eaten by their predators. The truce is disrupted when a scarred Bengal Tiger with a blinded left eye named Shere Khan arrives, detecting Mowgli’s scent in the large crowd. The explores the how Mowgli faces the Shere Khan to survive himself.