![]() ![]() Plodding, obdurate, opportunistic, load-bearing, indestructible, cheering – Marlene embodies the stubbornness of the human will and how it will do everything to survive.Īn Elephant in the Garden is the new adaptation by Simon Reade from Michael Morpurgos best-selling childrens novel. ![]() ![]() It is Lizzies story but Marlene, the elephant, is the heroine. Lizzie, her mother – and an elephant from the zoo, flee the Allied fire-bombing in the end-game of the Second World War.Įscaping 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. *Please note that there is a £1.50 fee per transaction An Elephant In The Garden By Michael Morpurgo Part of Exetreme Imaginationġ945. ![]()
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