The Elephant is back in the room, and very welcome it is too. This debut play with piano, written, performed and composed by musician-turned-actress Anoushka Lucas wowed at the tiny Bush studio in 2022, its brisk 60 minutes embracing race, colonialism, class and the cost of “fitting in”.
It saw Lucas shortlisted for Most Promising Playwright in the 2023 Evening Standard Theatre Awards, and arguably only didn’t win because it was hard to imagine anyone else performing a play so personal. Now here it is again, slightly extended and expanded for the larger Menier space.
