Voices form the Rocks Sunduza’s latest production reflects the history of the cultural environment in Matopos National Park based on the book, Voices from the Rocks: Nature, Culture and History in the Matopos Hills of Zimbabwe by Professor Terence Ranger. Professor Ranger is Emeritus Rhodes Professor of history and race relations at Oxford University and visiting professor at the University of Zimbabwe.

It is the unambiguous story of disposession from 1896 onwards but equally important offers an insight into how different cultures view access and use of the land; and how culture and politics came to change how groups see the land. Culture is at the heart of Zimbabwe’s present land question.

In this production the cast play multiple roles both as men and women, black and white, American and British missionaries and soldiers, district administrators, local chiefs, politicians, agricultural specialists and villagers. Each traveller paints a potrait of the landscape but often very different to that of the indigenous people.