Mlima’s Tale

BATC presents Profile Theatre’s production of Mlima’sTale by Lynn Nottage, directed by Reginald L. Douglas. Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage tells the provocative story of Mlima, a majestic elephant trapped in the clandestine international ivory market. Beginning in a game park in Kenya and traveling around the world to a billionaire’s penthouse in the West, the play tracks the trajectory of Mlima’s tusks through real-life consequences of animal poaching. Mlima’s phantom follows close behind marking everyone involved as complicit in his demise.