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Title: AN ELEPHANT IN THE GARDEN
By: Michael Morpurgo, Simon Reade
Format: Electronic book text

List price: £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.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Oberon Books Ltd
Returns: Non-returnable
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