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FAMILY · DEC 2026

Elephant in the Room

written by Camille Saint-Saëns, Alexey Kurbatov,

On stage: a coffer and a grand piano. Also a violin, a cello and, for some reason, a mop. Three musicians, a janitor and… a lion? A kangaroo? An elephant?

The janitor finds himself at a classical musicians’ rehearsal by chance, and in his hands, the most ordinary objects suddenly come alive: towels cluck, gloves leap like antelopes, and a ventilation hose turns into a trunk. Is it imagination or real magic?

A performance without words — in the language of theatre, music and childhood — is based on Saint-Saëns’s ‘The Carnival of the Animals’, Anja Evmenova’s script and your curiosity. A performance for children and their adults.

Accio, audience!

GenreFamily
Written byCamille Saint-Saëns (Composer), Alexey Kurbatov, undefined (Playwright)
Elephant in the Room