The Puppet Co. and Applause Unlimited team up again for a production of epic proportions.

The Puppet Co. again presents a restaging of Applause Unlimited's production of "The Jungle Book." The puppets, built by Terry Snyder and Christopher Hudert, performed in a production in Richmond, VA, then were stored away. A new script, written by Allan Stevens, and restaging by director Christopher Piper will showcase these beautiful creations in the Puppet Co.'s state-of-the-art facility in Glen Echo Park

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Shere Khan

What's "The Jungle Book" About???

Our story begins when Father Wolf goes out one evening to hunt for his family. He finds a human baby, lost by its mother. He decides to keep it. and raise it with her own cubs. Shere Khan, the tiger who hunts man, tries to claim the mancub. But with the help of Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther, the wolves’ council is won over. Mowgli is accepted into the wolfpack.

Mowgli grows up with Baloo and Bagheera as his teachers. From them, he learns the laws of the jungle. One day, after a lesson with Baloo, he meets the Bandar-Log, the monkeys, who tease him until he chases them off. Meanwhile, Shere Khan trys to convince the wolves to accept him as their leader. He warns them not to trust Mowgli.

Bagheera warns Mowgli about Shere Khan, and also about the monkeys. They do not abide by the laws of the jungle and are therefore outcasts. The monkeys appear, but Mowgli uses fire, “the red flower,” to chase them off. Bagheera, who is also afraid of fire, now teaches Mowgli another lesson: Mowgli is a man, and will never belong in the jungle because he is different from the animals. One day even his brothers, the wolves may turn against him.

Bagheera leaves, but the monkeys return and kidnap Mowgli, taking him to the Monkey City. When Bagheera and Baloo realize where Mowgli has been taken, they hurry to find Kaa, the Python: she is the only animal in the jungle whom the monkeys fear. Together they find Mowgli, and with the help of Kaa’s hypnotic poweres they all escape.

Then they return to the wolves’ council they find that Shere Khan has turned the wolves against Mowgli and his family. With the help of the “red flower,” Mowfli manages to defend his family and beat Shere Khan. But as the battlends, it becomes clear that Mowgli no longer belongs in the jungle. He will return to his own world, the world of the humans.