The company produced French street theatre company Royal de Luxe'sThe Sultan's Elephant, the biggest piece of free theatre ever staged in London, which attracted a million people over a four-day period in 2006, and the recent event in Liverpool featuring La Machine, a giant mechanical spider. Artichoke has received praise from the press for their productions: a review in The Observer wrote: "a two-woman company called Artichoke ... are one of the most vital of theatrical forces", and Marriage and Webb transformed the Salisbury Festival from a local event into what The Times called "a miracle of modern British culture". Marriage and Webb won the 2006 Women of the Year Shine Award for an outstanding achievement in the arts, and were listed in Time Outs list of 100 Movers and Shakers in London in November of the same year. Their production of The Sultan's Elephant won the Visit London Award for Cultural Event of the Year in 2006. In October 2007 Artichoke mounted a one-day conference, Larger Than Life, on all aspects of staging large-scale productions.
