The Jungle Book

City: Tehran

Company: Shadow Theater Company

Playwright &Director: Ramin Cohen

Based on the famous story of "The Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling

Puppet Designer: Ali Pakdast, Maryam Eghbali

Primary Puppet Design: Amir Kazemi

Puppet Makers: Ali Pakdast, Maryam Eghbali, Hosein Zeynali, Mehrnoush Sadeghian, Sara Vali, Elham Vafaei, Hojat Hashemi, Ghasem Rahmati, Amir Mohammadi, Amir Khaligh

Tailors: Sepideh Gholizadeh, Hafeze Eghbali

Video map: Ramin Bahadori

Set designer: Shadow Theater Company

Costume Design:  Nasrin Khorami

Lighting designer: Reza Khazrayi

Voice actors: Olka Hedayat, Mohammadreza Maleki, Saeid Abak, Kamyar Mohebi, Hani Hoseyni, Azadeh Moayedifar - With honorary presence of: Jaleh Olov, Marzieh Baroumand, Maryam Saadat, Amirhossein Sedigh and Mohamad Bahrani

Puppeteers: Saeid Abak, Parastoo Aryakia, Elham Iravani, Ali Baruti, Sadaf Bigdeli, Fatemeh Pourhashemi, Honey Hoseyni, Maryam Rahmani, Mehrnoush Sadeghian, Amir Abbasian, Hamidreza Goodarzi, Matin Goodarzi, Marzieh Naderi

Adviser and Project Manager: Nazila Norishad

Assistant directors: Masoumeh Arvaz, Honey Hoseyni

Stage managers: Mohammadhassan Darbaghifard, Hamid Goodarzi

Poet: Azadeh Farhangian

Composer: Ramin Cohen

Background music and tuning: Faraz Khanafari

Sound and Mix: Payam Karimi

Accessory design and Making: Homa Khodajouy

Poster Designer, Photographer: Ehsan Neghabat

International Relations: Maedeh Mirzaei Attabadi

Technique: Mix

Audience: Family

Duration: 60 min

Play summary:

In the jungle, "Bagheera" a caring black panther sees an abandoned child. He looks for his real parents but can’t find them. He brings the baby child to a Wolf pack and they accept to foster him. They call him "Mowgli". He lives and grows up with wolfs but the tiger who is Sultan of Jungle has an old hatred towards humans…

Director's note: puppets create love and beauty …