RHINOS GET IN THE ACT
Sounds Taped For Play
(By a Reuter Correspondent) JOHANNESBURG
Rhinos will be heard groaning, rumbling and calling their mates in one of the most unlikely places in Johannesburg—the Civic Theatre. For extra entertainment, they will end with a chorus.
The animals themselves will be safe in Natal’s Hluhluwe Reserve. There they were recorded by Lourens Fourie, at the time a radio reporter. The sounds will give added impact to “Die Renosters,” an Afrikaans version of the French play by Eugene lonesco. The play deals with some people who, under mass hysteria, are turned into rhinos. The players wear masks—but to make rhino noises was more of a problem. Mr Fourie was called in with a tape recording made near a pool, where a Zulu game warden imitated a rhino mating call and the rhinos responded.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30278, 2 November 1963, Page 5
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