Drop in anytime to see his magnificence HANNIBABY atop his multicolour puppet elephant, and decorate your own 3D elephant head. Together we will cross the mountains and make the impudent Roman Republic wish they had kept their filthy toes out of the strait of Messina.
A specially conceived Roman elephant puppet arrives at Shambala, fresh from an ambitious expedition through the Alps, invading Italy via the 218 BCE route of Hannibal Barca.
Sebastian Mayer is a puppet designer and performer whose credits include Don Quixote (2019), the RSC’s production of the BFG (2025), and Zarafa Giraffa (2023), for which Seb created a full size giraffe puppet and physically walked it 1,000km through France in the footsteps of a real giraffe who made that journey in 1827.
