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THE ROYAL HUNT OF THE SUN By Peter Shaffer Royal National Theatre - FIRST NIGHT REVIEW.(Theater review)
The Daily Mail (London, England)
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April 13, 2006
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Byline: QUENTIN LETTS
HAS Nick Hytner's regime at the National got it in for Christian festivals? A year or so ago it marked Christmas with an anti-Church Philip Pullman play.
Now, in Holy Week, there opens a dusty Peter Shaffer effort which takes repeated jabs at the Christianity of conquistadors in 16th century Peru. This jars.
The Royal Hunt of the Sun is a long night. It depicts, at one point, the epic crossing of the Andes by the explorer Francisco Pizarro and his small army which did in the Incas.
Watching the Spaniards stagger ...
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