Robert Wilson's new stage adaptation of The Jungle Book will be on in Paris, Aix-en-Provence and Clermont-Ferrand over the next few months. The visually striking production combines dialogues in French and original songs in English.
Wilson created the show with Cocorosie, a music group composed of two American sisters based in France. The show follows the "man cub" Mowgli from his arrival in the jungle, where he is accepted into a family of wolves, until he comes of age and has to leave the only place he has known as home to enter the world of humans.
Jungle Book
Théâtre de la Ville – 13e Art
30 avenue d'Italie 75013 Paris
6 October to 8 November
From age 8
Tickets 10-28 euros
Part of the Festival d'automne
Grand Théâtre de Provence, Aix en Provence
17 to 22 December
La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand
22 to 24 January 2020
Tag(s) : "British Empire" "British literature" "India" "music" "Rudyard Kipling" "the Jungle Book" "theatre"