Elephant

Winner of Best Writer at The Stage Debut Awards 2023 A piano came through the sky and landed in Lylah''s council flat, just for her. As she pours over the keys and sound floods into all the rooms, Lylah falls in love.At school, Lylah can''t ask questions - she''s got to be good, good, good or else she''ll lose her scholarship. At home she can''t ask questions; her cousins say she talks weird, and her parents are distracted. So she asks her piano: Where did you come from? Why are you here? And their shared history tumbles into the light.Part gig, part musical love story, part journey through Empire, this all-new expanded production of Olivier Award nominee Anoushka Lucas'' "exquisite" (Evening Standard) Elephant transferred to the Bush Theatre''s main house. This revised and expanded edition of the play accompanies the new 2023 production.>

About the author

Anoushka Lucas is a multi-instrumentalist singer and songwriter. Her music has been championed by Jazz Fm (Love Supreme winner 2013) and Radio 2 (Jamie Cullum show, BBC Introducing).
Composer: Klook's Last Stand (Book by Che Walker, Park Theatre 2014), The Etienne Sisters (Book by Che Walker, Stratford East 2015), Klook's Last Stand (NAMT, Oct 2017)
Actor: Jesus Christ Superstar (Mary Magdalene, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, Olivier Award Best Musical Revival), Murder on the Orient Express (Pianist, dir: Kenneth Branagh, 20th Century Fox), Been So Long (dir: Tinge Krishnan, BFI/Film4/Greenacre)

Product details

• Authors: Anoushka Lucas
• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.10.2023
• EAN: 9781350448261
• ISBN: 978-1-350-44826-1
• No. of pages: 72
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 6 mm
• Series: Modern Plays
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; DRAMA / General, Musicals, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Playwriting, Relating to Black British African people, Modern and contemporary plays (c 1900 onwards), Plays, Playscripts, Music of film and stage