Horn of Sorrow

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. The performance text is contained in Volume Two of The Complete Works of Nicholas Ellenbogen and Theatre for Africa (privately published by Theatre for Africa) and has been formally published in Plays for a New South Africa (Ed David 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.

Sources

Theatre for Africa. (n.d.) The Complete Works of Nicholas Ellenbogen and Theatre for Africa Claremont, Cape Town.

Nicholas Ellenbogen and Liz Szymczak (eds). 2003. Nicholas Ellenbogen's Horn of Sorrow and Elephant of Africa. Cape Town: Theatre for Africa.

Anina Joubert (ed). 2003. Nicholas Ellenbogen: Horing van Hartseer en Olifant van Afrika. Cape Town: Theatre for Africa

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