Having never read Rudyard Kipling’s collection of stories, commonly known as ‘The Jungle Book’, my only knowledge of the stories are from watching Walt Disney’s version on VHS as a child. Ahead of the show, I was looking forward to singing along to toe-tapping classics – namely ‘The Bare Necessities’, but then I remembered that this was to be no Disney production and a brand new adaptation with a newly composed score. As a result, I was unsure what to expect from this new production by Jessica Swale.
