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Based on Rudyard Kipling and set to Camille Saint-Saëns’s Carnival of the Animals. But what does the crocodile eat at lunchtime? wonders little elephant Flon-Flon. It’s not as simple a question as it seems. Kipling offers us an absurd and playful explanation of why elephants are elephants.
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Some questions seem more persistent than a tsetse fly. A little elephant loves to ask questions, and he always finds a new one. That morning, little Flon-Flon wonders what the crocodile might eat for lunch. He asks many members of the African animal family, but can’t find an answer. His friend, the bird Colo-Colo, advises him to go and ask the crocodile himself.
Absurd, funny and comical, this show is a zoological and musical farce about the question of who and what. This modern and initiatory tale is also a comical way of explaining not only evolution but also why elephants have long noses, or their famous trunks, which characterise them.