Horn of Sorrow

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Horn of Sorrow is an ecological play by Nicholas Ellenbogen and Theatre for Africa.

The original text

An improvised play utilizing mime, mimetic sounds, dance, songs, storytelling and minimalist techniques to address the extinction of the white rhino. First performed at *1989, then toured the country. First published in Plays for a New South Africa (Ed D. Graver) by Indiana University Press in 1999.

Translations and adaptations

Translated into Afrikaans as Horing van Hartseer by Frans Swart and Christien Coetzee, and published by Theatre for Africa in Horing van Hartseer en Olifant van Afrika, a collection compiled for Western Cape schools, edited with notes by Anina Joubert.

Performance history in South Africa

Sources

Nicholas Ellenbogen. 2003. Horing van Hartseer en Olifant van Afrika. Theatre for Africa

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