In true Elephant fashion we are, once again, paving our own path. Following our critically acclaimed sell-out 11th Season (7 Redneck Cheerleaders, 365 Days/Plays, In Arabia We’d All be Kings, and One Fell Swoop) the Elephant’s 2007/08 line-up offers a daringly fresh perspective on love’s many faces in a trifecta of three world premieres all written by company playwrights. Prepare yourself for a truly remarkable undertaking…

A Southern widower falls for a charismatic Hollywood tranny and together they just might find life worth living in Tim McNeil’s Anything; the spirit of Peter O’Toole as Henry II possesses a simple book binder causing his family to see him as the man he wanted to be in Gena Acosta’s Tooth and Nail; and a bizarre bicycle accident leads a young woman into the surreal chaos of her own subconscious as we follow her waking dream in Tony Foster’s Asleep on a Bicyle.

The season will also include our annual short play fest of original anti-valentine’s offerings, Love Bites, Staged Readings of works-in-progress, and bigger than ever Elephant Events!

What can we say? Creativity abounds at the Elephant!
Please join us this season and support Los Angeles’ finest playwrights, actors, and directors.

David Fofi, Artistic Director / Elephant Theatre Company
Lindsay Allbaugh, Producing Director / Elephant Theatre Company

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ANYTHING
By Tim McNeil Directed by David Fofi

November 30th through January 27th (off Dec 23-Jan 2)
Fridays and Saturdays @8pm, Sunday’s @7pm

Performances are at:
The Lillian Theatre 1076 N. Lillian Way,
Hollywood CA 90038 (One bock west of Vine off of Santa Monica Blvd)

For More Information or to Purchase Tickets: 323.960.4410
or visit www.plays411.com/anything

CRITIC'S CHOICE  

"An offbeat love story with humor and heart..."  "The terrific cast is incapable of a false moment."  "...a mesmerizing, uproarious performance not to be missed."   
­Los Angeles Times

"EXTREMELY FUNNY... EXTREMELY HEARTFELT..." "McNeil and Fofi do a hell of a job creating a story that is original and new..."  
 ­LA Splash

McNeil starts the season off with Anything, a wryly humorous, profoundly moving story of the remarkable love that blossoms between Early Landry, a grief-stricken near-recluse from small town Mississippi, and his tranny neighbor, the beautiful and exotic Freda von Rhensburg. McNiel, the author of such critically-acclaimed plays as Margaret, Supernova, Crane Mississippi, and, most recently at the Elephant, his powerful Los Muertos, sets his story of strange yet -familiar love within strolling distance of Hollywood’s Theatre Row. David Fofi will direct.

THE SAN FRANCISCO PLAY (a staged reading)
By Louis Doug Jacobs

Show Dates -TBA

Performance at:
The Elephant Space
6322 Santa Monica Blvd.,
Hollywood CA 90038
(One bock west of Vine on Santa Monica Blvd)

Betwixt and between, there’ll be the Elephant’s now-expected moveable feast of readings, workshops, 2nd stage shows, and LA24/Rushes. In mid-January, keep an eye out for a one-night only, fully staged reading of The San Francisco Play by company playwright Louis Doug Jacobs, author of the Elephant’s recent critically-acclaimed sell-out hit comedy 7 Redneck Cheerleaders. Hearts aren’t the only thing broken in Jacobs’ play whose action all takes place on the day of “the Big One,” the 1908 quake that changed the Bay City and its inhabitants forever. Be forewarned, this tale features a sexually-addled mother-smothered scion of a prominent Nob Hill family who’s visited by a larcenous team of thespian con artists posing as Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan.

LOVE BITES, Vols. VI & VII
Written by Elephant Company Members

February 14th through March 9th & May 2nd through June 7th.
Every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 8pm

Performances are at:
The Elephant Space
6322 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood CA 90038
(One bock west of Vine on Santa Monica Blvd)

“Love Bites demonstrates that the Elephant Company can produce original material with depth and quality. The level of writing, acting and direction is above many of the company’s peers.”
-- Metro LA

“These short plays are strange in their dysfunctional, comedic aura; and definitely funny.”
--Entertainment Today

To celebrate (or skewer) love’s greeting card and chocolatier official season, the Elephant issues the sixth and seventh consecutive editions of its perennial favorite Love Bites series. Two sets of original one-acts, all grappling with life’s most enduring mystery, will play in rep from Valentine’s Day through March 9th. Performances are at The Elephant Lab 1078 N. Lillian Way., Hollywood CA 90038 (One bock west of Vine off of Santa Monica Blvd) TOOTH AND NAIL By Gena Acosta Elephant playwright Gena Acosta joins the fun with her fresh from the pen comedy, Tooth and Nail. Acosta’s uproariously dysfunctional family seizes the Elephant Space on in early May and runs through mid-June. Leaping into territory touched on by such comic masters as Durang and Guare, Acosta’s off-the-rail comedy threatens to become the company’s next break-out hit.

TOOTH AND NAIL
By Gena Acosta
Directed by Lindsay Allbaugh

May 15th through June 15th. EXTENDED through June 28th!
Thursday, Friday and Saturday's at 8pm, Sunday's at 7pm.

Extension Performances: June 19, 20, 21, 27 and 28 at 8pm.

Performances are at:
The Lillian Theatre 1076 N. Lillian, Hollywood CA 90038
(One bock west of Vine off of Santa Monica Blvd)

Elephant playwright Gena Acosta joins the fun with her fresh from the pen comedy, Tooth and Nail. Acosta’s uproariously dysfunctional family seizes the Elephant Space on in early May and runs through mid-June. Leaping into territory touched on by such comic masters as Durang and Guare, Acosta’s off-the-rail comedy threatens to become the company’s next break-out hit.

ASLEEP ON A BICYCLE
By Tony Foster
Directed by David Fofi

Opens September 5th.
Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 7pm.

Performances are at:
The Lillian Theatre
1076 N. Lillian, Hollywood CA 90038
(One bock west of Vine off of Santa Monica Blvd)

Capping the Elephant’s season of world premieres is Tony Foster’s Asleep on a Bicycle. Foster’s sexy dreamscape features: an ax-wielding ancestral rival to Lizzie Borden; a big-hearted lesbian nun; a late great Italian screen siren; a dream-child named after the family cat who grows up before our mind’s eye; a hot screenplay by some flavor-of-the-week writer geek whose high six figure manuscript stars a tough-talking vagina; and sundry others who figure grandly in the waking dream of a young woman who may or may not be lost in a fatal coma following a bizarre bicycle accident. This trippily surreal comedy manages to touch places in our hearts and obscure corners of our collective unconscious.