Paris, 1870: a pair of French soldiers plot to kill and eat the elephants in the city zoo. St. Thomas, 1885: P.T. Barnum’s famous elephant Jumbo is struck by a train. Coney Island, 1903: an elephant is publicly electrocuted in what becomes the earliest recorded footage of the moment of death. In Dead Elephants, these three stories are braided around the contemporary struggle of a young couple grieving the loss of their infant child. With three performers playing twelve  characters across four timelines, Dead Elephants is a virtuosic, harrowing, and poignant meditation on death, mourning, and animals.

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"After the show, you may leave the theatre under your own power, but Dead Elephants is coming with you...When all is said and done, you will wrestle with Dead Elephants' rich, confounding, and episodically-presented materials yourself. And you will either stand in a grave of confusion...or become something else." -- SesayArts Magazine

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"A deeply funny, poignant and whimsical examination of ethics, mortality and grief." -- Istvan Reviews

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"Raw, angry, angst-ridden and heartbreaking." -- The Slotkin Letter

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