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Elephant’s
Graveyard is the true tale of the tragic collision of a
struggling circus and a tiny town in Tennessee, which
resulted in the only known lynching of an elephant. Set in
September of 1916, the play combines historical fact and
legend, exploring the deep-seated American craving for
spectacle, violence and revenge.
“The script—based on
a true story about a traveling circus that, in 1916,
stumbled into gory disaster in a muddy Tennessee town—is,
like the best art, microscopically specific with echoes that
radiate outward across time. It conjures a world with its
own atmosphere and terrible internal logic. It’s
mesmerizing... symphonic in its emotional variations on a
tragic theme. Elephant’s Graveyard buzzes with truth about
the consequences of misunderstanding, the invisible but
enormous gap between artists and their audiences, and the
infernal beauty of vaudeville.” -The Stranger,
Seattle
“A theatrical
masterpiece.” – Columbia City Paper
“The most striking
production in the (NSDF) festival.” – Times of London
“Deeply moving…has the audience in stitches at the open and
tears at the close.” – TheSunCoast.com |
