Journey of the tall horse
Subtitle: a story of African theatre
By: Mervyn Millar.
Contributors: Burns, Khephra.; Jones, Basil.
Publisher: Oberon
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781840025996
Subjects: Puppet theater -- Africa -- 21st century; Giraffe -- Africa -- Drama
Genres: Drama.
Description: "In 1826 a giraffe was captured in the African savannah and transported from Egypt to France to be presented to King Charles X as a prize addition to his menagerie. In 2004 a unique collection of performers from around the world joined together to tell its story with the help of a grand variety of puppet designers, actors, dancers, stilt-walkers, music, costumes, graphics - and a life-size puppet giraffe." "Journey of the Tall Horse tells how this ambitious collaboration came about, and how the contributors worked together, incorporating a huge range of styles and techniques and overcoming barriers of culture and language, to perform the show to great success. Filled with photographs, original design sketches and comments from all those involved, Mervyn Millar's eye-witness account takes the reader to the heart of the theatre-making process, capturing all the enthusiasm and exhaustion, frustrations and rewards of being involved in a groundbreaking stage production. The book also includes the performance script of Tall Horse by Khephra Burns."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Forward by Basil Jones.

Includes a performance script of the play Tall horse, by Khephra Burns.

This script performed in the Baxter Theatre, Cape Town, South Africa, 27 April-14 May 2005.
Table of contents: title: Journey of the tall horse; title: Tall horse, performance script.