Show Plot Tarzan

Authors: Phil Collins (music and lyrics) and playwright David Henry Hwang (book), adapted from the 1999 animated film and Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel Tarzan of the Apest

Time Period: The late 1800s or early 20th century

Setting: The dense, untamed jungles and coastal areas of West Africa

Summary:

An English couple washes ashore in West Africa after a shipwreck and builds a treehouse. A fierce leopard kills the parents, but a mother gorilla named Kala—who recently lost her own baby to the same leopard—rescues and adopts the human infant, naming him Tarzan.