ELEPHANT FOOT is...
wealth
4 - 30 August 2010
At the Edinburgh
Festival Fringe
ELEPHANT FOOT is...
wealth
4 - 30 August 2010
At the Edinburgh
Festival Fringe
How do you change
a world that profits
from forgetfulness,
when all you have
is memory?
Rwanda, 1994. A young girl is stranded amongst bodies on a dusty road. She clutches her faded American doll. She steps in front of a car carrying a western diplomat and his family. They take pity on her. She sits in the back with a boy, she lends him her doll, sharing stories of its future. The car arrives at the border, but the guards refuse her crossing. The boy leaves with her doll. She stays.
Sixteen years later. Nathan designs dolls of his own: action figurines into whom he pours his hopes, his dreams, his narrative of the perfect life, and by whom he has won fame and fortune.
Today Grace returns. She wants her doll back.
Following a highly successful, site-specific run at east London's Cable Street Studios, a transformation of space and story that Time Out called "gloriously atmospheric", Elephant Foot brings you Wealth and their trademark blend of virtuosic, provocative, and thrilling theatre.
Performed at the C Soco (Venue 348)
Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1HR
4 - 30 August (not 16th) @ 16:35
For ticket details and to book, visit our page at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Written by Ben Charland
Directed by Laura Burdon-Manley
Performed by Ben Charland, Adanna Oji and Saskia Solomons
Lighting by Pierangelo Vidotto
Choreography by Hayley Adams
Assistant Director: Giulia D’Amico
Media Design by Matthew J. Humphreys
Press Information
Download the Flyer, Front & Back (.tif)
Download the 26 July Press Release (.doc) here.
Download the 19 July Press Release (.doc) here.
Download the 20 May Press Release (.doc) here.
For information on the previous March production at Cable Street Studios in London, click here.