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Review Round up: Elephant, Menier Chocolate Factory

We take a look at how critics have been reacting to the return of Anoushka Lucas’ solo show to the stage.   (c)Manuel Harlan WhatsOnStage: ***** "The great gift of the play is the directness and the beauty of its central image." London Theatre.co.uk: **** "It's a speech that feels like a dam breaking. But…

ELEPHANT review by thespyinthestalls at Menier Chocolate

ELEPHANT Menier Chocolate Factory ★★★★ “We are fascinated by what Lucas has to say, but it’s the music that truly speaks for itself” As we sit round an upright piano, we are given an in-depth analysis of the aftereffects of striking a piano key. How the slim slab of ivory trips a lever which brings a soft felt-lined hammer onto a metal string, which, in turn, causes the air to vibrate eventually spreading across the room and filling each of us …

Review -  Elephant - Menier Chocolate Factory  - southlondon.co.uk

The Sound of Being Seen From the moment Lucas touches the piano, the room shifts. She talks about how sound — vibration, really — connects us all, how it travels through the particles in the air and makes the very lights flicker. And, somehow, as she speaks, it starts to feel completely true, writes Luigia Minichiello. The ‘Elephant’ in the room? It’s the piano itself — its keys bound in painful history, each note carrying weight. And yet there’…