Monday, April 8, 2013

Something U Don't See Everyday: The Sultans Elephant

'The Sultan's Elephant'... Based on a tale by Jules Verne.

The gist of the story is that there once lived a Sultan who was tormented in his dreams by visions of a girl who he believed was traveling through time.

He couldn't sleep so he built a time-traveling elephant and set off in search of the girl, who, in the course of his nightmares, had been transformed into a marionette 5 meters high.


The Sultans Elephant Video



The Sultan's Elephant, "a show created by the Royal de Luxe theatre company" France in 2004-2005.

It had, "hundreds of moving parts and scores of pumping pistons
(22 in the trunk alone)"


"The elephant no longer exists: Helen Marriage of Artichoke, the company that produced the London performance, said "Royal de Luxe were so fed up with being invited all over the world to perform The Sultan's Elephant, they just destroyed it."
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