Metta theatre are front runners in cross art form theatre practice and this week theyve somersaulted into the lowry, salford with their refreshing and radical interpretation of rudyard kiplings classic tale, the jungle book using a vibrant and intoxicating fusion of hiphop, street dance, circus. The jungle book malvern theatres metta theatre brings kiplings classic tale crashing into the 21st century with breath taking street dance, circus, skateboards and spoken word. Wednesday 25 october 2017 saturday 28 october 2017. We believe that everyone, regardless of their age or background, should be able to access bold, innovative and intelligent theatre.
Metta theatre has gathered themselves an ensemble pack of, paradoxically, both young at heart. Jungle book, london wonderground a younger theatre. It is worth noting that there are two famous versions of jungle book the original by rudyard kipling, and the disney version. As visual entertainment, jungle book in the spiegeltent at london wonderground was quite mesmerising. Based both on rudyard kiplings timehonored childrens tales and the classic disney filmand with a score. There are subtle differences between the two versions, and ours makes reference to both. Adapted and directed by poppy butonmorgan rudyard kiplings classic tale reimagined with streetdance, circus and spoken word. If you are looking for disney characters you should look elsewhere as this is a gritty, urban explosive retelling of kiplings jungle book by metta. These projects were both part of metta 10 ten shows staged across one year to celebrate the companys tenth birthday of which jungle book is the 10th. British theatre guide spectacular streetdance and breathtaking circus combine to bring kiplings classic tale crashing into the 21st century. Media theatre has a new jungle book on stage this summer. Spectacular streetdance and breathtaking circus combine to bring kiplings classic.
With a beatloving bin man baloo, graffiti artist bagheera and a skateboarding wolf crew, this heartwarming coming of age story will astonish and amaze. Metta theatre offers another angle on the jungle book, as director poppy burtonmorgan transplants kiplings stories to the urban jungle. However as a remake of the original rudyard kipling stories, for todays audience, i kept losing the plot. As the walt disney remakeremodel of its animated jungle book goes live, metta theatre takes kiplings characters and places them onto the. With a beatboxing bin man baloo, graffiti artist bagheera and a skateboarding wolf crew, this heartwarming coming of age. Metta theatre are front runners in cross art form theatre practice and. Metta theatres the jungle book dances over to the lowry.
As the walt disney remakeremodel of its animated jungle book goes live, metta theatre takes kiplings characters and places them onto the mean streets of modern britain. Metta theatres the jungle book richard davenport upstaged rating. This spectacular new production from awardwinning metta theatre brings kiplings classic tale crashing into the 21st century with breathtaking. Metta theatre, the group established in 2005, began developing this show in 20. Jungle book at the underbelly festival theatre bubble. Photography illustrating derby theatre information pages by robert day and steve gresty. Metta theatres jungle book offers a surprisingly unique take on an old classic. Buy jungle book tickets showing at the spiegeltent, london. The jungle book is coming to the southbank but not as. Fresh from its international tour, award winning metta theatres critically acclaimed production of jungle book returns to the underbelly festival by popular demand to delight the whole family mowgli is finding her way in the urban jungle. Here, metta theatre have taken on kiplings the jungle book, looking to provoke and challenge the politics of the piece.
Jungle book spectacular streetdance and breathtaking circus combine to bring kiplings classic tale crashing into the 21st century. Mettas jungle book act one our version of jungle book is set in an urban jungle. This spectacular new production from the awardwinning metta theatre brings kiplings classic tale crashing into the 21st century with breathtaking street dance and circus. Metta theatre jungle book dance in devon a charity. Fresh from its international tour, award winning metta theatre s critically acclaimed production of jungle book will delight the whole family. Jungle book by metta theatre, at london wonderground. This spectacular new production from awardwinning metta theatre brings kiplings classic tale crashing into the 21st century with breathtaking street dance and circus.
With a beatboxing bin man baloo, graffiti artist bagheera and a skateboarding wolf crew, this heartwarming. Metta theatre s jungle book new trailer with show footage. This spectacular new production from the awardwinning metta theatre brings kiplings classic tale crashing into the 21st century with breath taking street dance and circus. I cant claim to have spotted every venture of her ten years, but definitely remember a sitespecific pirandello in a tiny cafe and updated scheherezade tales at the soho by modern arab writers from tunisia to syria during the arab spring sindbad was a. The jungle book is coming to the southbank but not as youve seen it march 30, 2016 by tom bailey leave a comment forget the whimsical bear necessities and lounging around metta theatre have a blood pumping. Autumn 2017 derby theatre brochure by derby theatre issuu. Grime and grace in the urban jungle you never know what youll get from poppy burtonmorgans metta theatre.
They clearly aimed to set this book in the urban jungle. Its a big year for rudyard kiplings classic story, with disney just releasing their liveaction remake of the. Metta theatre are frontrunners in cross art form theatre practice and this week theyve somersaulted into the lowry, salford with their refreshing and radical interpretation of rudyard kiplings classic tale, the jungle book using a vibrant and intoxicating fusion of hiphop, street dance, circus and storytelling. This spectacular new production from the awardwinning metta theatre brings kiplings classic tale the jungle book crashing into the 21st century with breathtaking street dance and circus. It creates an experience that, much like kaa, soon has you under its spell. The jungle book by metta theatre mixes everything from breakdancing to aerial hoop.
The show bursts with attitude and should appeal to fans of zoo nation choreographer kendra j horsburgh worked on into the hoods. This adaptation of the jungle book 1894 a collection of. Awardwinning metta theatre is celebrating its tenth anniversary with a vibrant, colourful and joyous production of kiplings jungle book this is not your disney version but a glorious fusion of dance, storytelling, circus and hip hop theatre. The small group have worked out an ambitious mission to update. How could metta theatre a small production company who straddle dramatic forms. Caleb is thrilled and honored to be a part of the jungle book. Spectacular streetdance and breathtaking circus combine to bring kiplings classic tale crashing into the 21st century. The jungle book goodman theater, chicago, ill 387 seats.
Dean stewart as shere khan and natalie nicole jones as mowgli in jungle book. The jungle springs to life in a musicfilled spectacle that chronicles young mowglis adventures growing up in the animal kingdom. Baloo is now a beatboxing bin man, bagheera a graffiti artist, shere khan a street gangster, and junglelad mowgli a feisty woman and a mean gymnast. By contrast, metta theatres touring stage adaptation, directed by poppy burtonmorgan, boldly updates and converts rudyard kiplings classic into a. Metta theatres urban jungle book is now on tour in a production that fuses circus and street dance to drive home the bare necessities at the heart of kiplings story, adapted and directed by poppy burtonmorgan, and i went to see it last weekend in. Jungle book by poppy burtonmorgan after rudyard kipling. Reimagined as a cross cultural urban dreamscape, the production forgoes talking animals for circus skilled gangsters, graffiti artists and. Jungle book uk tour douglas mayo 15th september 2016 20th april 2016 news, touring, west end this spectacular new production from the awardwinning metta theatre brings kiplings classic tale crashing into the 21st century with. Ill admit i was concerned about a mash up of hiphop, dancetheatre and narrativecircus.
Mowgli, baloo, and the gang are ready to entertain this summer each weekend at the media theatre in the jungle book. Director poppy burtonmorgan injects some new blood into an old tale through a. With a beatboxing bin man baloo, graffiti artist bagheera and a skateboarding wolf crew, this heartwarming coming of age story will astonish and amaze. Metta theatre have shifted rudyard kiplings classic childrens story onto the streets of london. Metta theatre jungle book windsor, theatre royal uk uk. Awardwinning metta theatre are delighted to announce that their smash hit production of jungle book will return to underbelly festival at the. The jungle book by metta theatre at underbelly festival. Fresh from its international tour, award winning metta theatres critically acclaimed production of jungle book will delight the whole family. Caleb is an honor student who enjoys playing trumpet, filmmaking, swimming, biking and parkour. This dance production by awardwinning metta theatre uses music, spoken word, hiphop, circus skills and breakdance to tell the story of mowgli, a girl abandoned in an inner city as a baby, who embarks on a journey back to a life with the suits.
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