The Royal Hunt of the Sun
A 1964 theatre piece by Peter Shaffer that dramatizes the relation of two worlds entering in a conflict by portraying two characters: Atahuallpa Inca and Francisco Pizarro.
The original text
Performance history in South Africa
Staged by the University of Cape Town in the Little Theatre from December 1969 to January 1970, directed by Mavis Taylor, starring Michael Atkinson as Atahuallpa and Ronald France as Francisco Pizarro, with Michael Repham (Hernando), Allan Hopf (Miguel), Johan van Jaarsveld (De Caudia), Duncan McBarnett (Diego), Bill Jervis (Old Martin), Christopher Prophet (Young Martin), Jos Gerson (Salinas), Denis Bettesworth (Rodas), Ian A. Peters (Vasca), Arnold Blumer (Domingo), Theunis Huisamen (Juan), Johan Bernard (Pedro),
Staged during the opening season of the Pretoria State Theatre in 1981, directed by Leonard Schach, with Keith Grenville, Marius Weyers, Michael McCabe, David Horner, Patrick Mynhardt, Bill Flynn and others.
Sources
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