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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), Drama for a New South Africa (Ed David Graver) (Indiana University Press, 1999) and Nicholas Ellenbogen's Horn of Sorrow and Elephant of Africa (edited by Nicholas Ellenbogen and Liz Szymczak, published by Theatre for Africa in 2003).

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, with notes translated by Anina Joubert.

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 == Performance history in South Africa ==
-Written in 1986, the play addresses the threat to the black rhino because of poaching and the trade in rhino horn. It was first performance was an open-air presentation under a fig tree in the Umfolozi Game Reserve in Natal, before going on an extended tour of South Africa and performances abroad.
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