Akram Khan, as a ten-year-old, played Mowgli in Peter Brooke's The Adventures of Mowgli. Clearly, the story has been in his mind ever since and, in this remarkable dance-theatre version currently at Sadler's Wells, he has indeed reimagined Kipling's 1894 book. So, just to manage expectations, you can forget any kind of Disney Jungle Book or Lion King here. Khan's Mowgli enters a dark world in every sense. Instead of the jungle, we are in an apocalypse of our own making – the waters have risen, the Eiffel Tower and Big Ben are toppling into the waves and a young girl, Mowgli, is adrift on a raft with her mother. The two are portrayed at this point as line drawings in a remarkable animation sequence by YeastCulture that sees Mowgli fall into the depths to be rescued by a whale and deposited on land and surrounded by animals. This is the point where the live action begins – and what action there is. The dancers become animals before your eyes. All dressed in the sa