An Elephant in the Garden Paperback / softback
by Michael Morpurgo
Part of the Oberon Modern Plays series
Paperback / softback
Description
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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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:60 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:14/10/2014
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- ISBN:9781783191741
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Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:60 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:14/10/2014
- Category:
- ISBN:9781783191741
