Theatre
An Elephant in the Garden
- Artists
- Simon Reade, Alison Reid
Alison Reid performs Simon Reade’s dramatisation of Michael Morpurgo’s gripping, funny young people’s novel.
1945. Dresden, Germany. Lizzie, her mother, and an elephant from the zoo flee the Allied fire-bombing in the end-game of the Second World War.
Escaping the Allies’ advance from the West – and also the advancing Russian armies from the East – this extraordinary trio of refugees meet a downed RAF officer, cowering in a barn; a homeless school choir on the run and their Countess saviour, harbouring them from the Nazis; and the mechanised American cavalry, appearing over the horizon.
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July 6-7, 7.30pm, £12 upwards. Ages 9+. For more info, visit www.tobaccofactorytheatres.com/shows/an-elephant-in-the-garden
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