Dead Elephants (2024)
Produced by
Playwright: Alexander Offord
Director: Nicole Wilson
Venue
Run
March 7th, 2024 – March 17th, 2024
Synopsis
Paris, 1870: a pair of French soldiers plot to kill and eat the elephants in the city zoo. St. Thomas, 1885: P.T. Barnum’s famous elephant Jumbo is struck by a train. Coney Island, 1903: an elephant is publicly electrocuted in what becomes the earliest recorded footage of the moment of death. In Dead Elephants, these three stories are braided around the contemporary struggle of a young couple grieving the loss of their infant child. With three performers playing twelve characters across four timelines, Dead Elephants is a virtuosic, harrowing, and poignant meditation on death, mourning, and animals. (goodoldneon.ca)
Cast
Allan Cooke | Performer |
Hayden Finkelshtain | Performer |
Nicole Wilson | Performer |
Creative Team
Alexander Offord | Playwright |
Nicole Wilson | Director |
Nicola Atkinson | Assistant Director |
Kristofer Van Soelen | Set Designer |
Nicole Wilson | Set Designer |
Connor Price-Kelleher | Lighting Designer |
Alexander Offord | Sound Designer |
Production
Sarah Brawn | Stage Manager |
Nicola Atkinson | Producer |
Sebastian Biasucci | Producer |
Allan Cooke | Producer |
Hayden Finkelshtain | Producer |
Alexander Offord | Producer |
Nicole Wilson | Producer |