| Monica Flory's plays for young people and adults have been produced and developed with Threads Productions, Poly Prep Country Day School, Theatre-Studio Inc., Emerging Artists Theater, Manhattan Comedy Collective, University of Maryland Baltimore County, University of Southern Oregon, and Youth Theatre Northwest in Seattle. Her full-length plays include Afterlight, Last Summer, Once Upon A Pandora's Box, The Jungle Book and Wild Thing. Her short comedy Third Wheel was published in 2007: The Best 10-Minute Plays by Smith and Kraus, and Last Summer is published by Brooklyn Publishers. A member of the Dramatists Guild, she lives in Philadelphia with her husband Jason and daughter Kya. |
|
The Jungle Book adapted by Monica Flory
based on the stories by Rudyard Kipling |
 
|
|
Adventure comedy/drama
Full-length, 60-75 minutes
5 females, 4 males, 10 either
(12-22 actors possible: 0-22 females, 0-22 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
In this action-packed adaptation of the classic adventure story, precocious Mowgli grows up believing he's as fierce a wolf as any of the members of his pack. When he learns he is actually a human, he must discover how to reconcile these very different identities, and decide whether to remain with the pack, or return to the human world from which he was born. What will he choose? And will he be trained in the Law of the Jungle in time to defeat Shere Khan, the most feared animal of all?
|  |
|
 |
| "Monica Flory's script is both scrupulously faithful to Rudyard Kipling and completely original in its approach. While Kipling's story is basically a grand adventure, this version takes its subtext -- a boy's quest for identity -- and makes it the heart of the piece. It includes all the book's action and even some of its dialogue, but increases the emotional resonance." |
| --Laurel Graeber, The New York Times |
|
|
|
|
Comedy
Full-length, 60-75 minutes
7 females, 3 males, 3 either
(11-16 actors possible: 7-13 females, 3-9 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Once upon a time in New York City, Tabitha and her brother Louis discover a box sitting in the hall of their apartment. Curious, Tabitha opens the box, allowing five imprisoned fairy tale villains to escape. Free at last, the dastardly villains begin to wreck the apartment, but when they discover that writing in Tabitha's notebook will give them control of other fictional characters, things really get dicey. Will Tabitha harness the power of her storytelling? Or will the fairy tale villains run wild in New York? A clever comedy that demonstrates the importance of villains in every story.
|  |
|
|
|
