Dead Elephants

Good Old Neon presents the world premier of DEAD ELEPHANTS; a startling and poignant new play from Alexander Offord.

On Stage MARCH 7th-17th at the Aki Studio Theatre at Daniel Spectrum (585 Dundas St. East)

With three performers playing a dozen characters across four timelines, Dead Elephants is a moving meditation on mourning, animals, and technology.

In 1870, during a food shortage brought about by the siege of Paris, a pair of French soldiers plot to kill and eat the elephants in the city zoo. In 1885, P.T. Barnum’s famous elephant Jumbo is struck by a train in St. Thomas, Ontario. In 1903, a circus elephant in Coney Island is publicly electrocuted in what becomes the earliest recorded footage of the passage of a creature from life into death. In Dead Elephants, these three stories are braided around the contemporary struggle of a young couple in the midst of grieving the loss of their infant child.

Directed by Nicole Wilson

Featuring:

Allan Cooke

Hayden Finkelshtain

Nicole Wilson

Assistant Directed by Nicola Atkinson

Set Design by Kris Van Soelen and Nicole Wilson

Produced by Sebastian Biasucci

Tickets starting at $25

Sunday RUSH tickets $15

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