Dead Elephants

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

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

 

Who is it for?

All ages

Tickets : 25-45

General Admission
TIER 1 – $15
TIER 2 – $35
TIER 3 – $45

Limited $15 Rush Tickets on Sundays

How to get tickets?

Buy online

Phone: 416-531-1402

Email: boxoffice@nativeearth.ca

 

Date: Thursday March 7, 2024 to Sunday March 17, 2024

Thursday, March 7, 7:30PM (Opening)
Friday, March 8, 7:30PM
Saturday, March 9, 2:30PM (matinee, talkback)
Saturday, March 9, 7:30PM
Sunday, March 10, 2:30PM (matinee)
Tuesday, March 12, 7:30PM
Wednesday, March 13, 2:30PM (matinee, talkback)
Wednesday, March 13, 7:30PM
Thursday, March 14, 7:30PM
Friday, March 15, 7:30PM
Saturday, March 16, 2:30PM (matinee, talkback)
Saturday, March 16, 7:30PM
Sunday, March 17, 2:30PM (matinee, closing)

100

Venue & Address

Aki Studio Theatre , 585 Dundas St E #250, Toronto, ON M5A 2B7

Wheelchair accessible