EAST COAST PREMIERE
Created by Eliza Ladd and Little Big Tree Productions
Inspired by the New York Times Magazine article ‘Are We Driving Elephants Crazy?’, Elephants and Gold is an ensemble driven physical theater piece that drags, digs, buries, crawls and plunges into an archeological excavation of human identity.
Blending song, movement and dreamlike vignettes, the cast chronicles human migration, ritual and inter-species dynamics. The performers transform into early humans, elephants, Victorian explorers, lost men and poachers, within a landscape of metal buckets, heavy stones, iron hooks and strands of rope. Elephants and Gold reveals both the ancient and contemporary relationships between elephants and humans and questions our evolutionary and cultural stories.
Thursday, August 6 at 7pm
pi¢k your own pri¢e – opening night
Friday, August 7 at 9pm
Saturday, August 8 at 7pm
Sunday, August 9 at 8pm
Monday, August 10 at 8pm, followed by a post show discussion
Photo by Alex Miles Young
