Blue Elephant Theatre

A script by Mervyn Peake, The Cave, was given a rehearsed reading at the theatre by Flat Pack Productions on 21 June 2009.

Following this the Blue Elephant staged the world premiere production of The Cave in October 2010,[8] directed by Aaron Paterson.

On Friday 10 May 2013, the Blue Elephant presented a scratch work-in-progress theatre adaptation of Peake's novella Boy in Darkness, performed by Gareth Murphy.

The piece adapted and performed by Gareth Murphy, in which he played the Boy, goat, hyena and lamb, as well as a central storytelling character, was at this stage in its process directed by John Walton.

In 2014, BBC Children in Need approached the Blue Elephant, offering places for eleven young people from the theatre to join the celebrity choir formed by Gareth Malone to record a cover of Avicii's "Wake Me Up".