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Item Details
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AN ELEPHANT IN THE GARDEN
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| By: |
Michael Morpurgo, Simon Reade |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£8.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1783196734 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781783196739 |
| Publisher: |
OBERON BOOKS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
31 October, 2014 |
| Description: |
An Elephant in the Garden is the new adaptation by Simon Reade from Michael Morpurgo's bestselling children's novel. A multi-character, multi-location one-woman show, it is very much in the theatrical mould of his highly successful one-man show adaptations of war stories Toro! Toro!, The Mozart Question and Private Peaceful. |
| Synopsis: |
An Elephant in the Garden is Simon Reade's new adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's best-selling children'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. It is Lizzie's story - but Marlene, the elephant, is the heroine. Plodding, obdurate, opportunistic, loadbearing, indestructible, cheering - Marlene embodies the stubbornness of the human will and how it will do everything to survive. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Oberon Books Ltd |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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