The Royal Hunt of the Sun
National Theatre. Produced with Desmond O’Donovan
Cast & Crew
Cast
Atahuallpa | Robert Stephens |
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Challcuchima | Edward Hardwicke |
Chieftain | Peter John |
Diego de Trujillo | Michael Gambon |
Domingo; T/O Miguel Estete | Thomas Kempinski |
Felipillo | Derek Jacobi |
FRancisco Pizzarro | Colin Blakely |
Fray Marcos de Nizza | Kenneth Mackintosh |
Fray Vincente de Valverde | James Mellor |
Headman | Bruce Purchase |
Hernando de Soto | Michael Turner |
Indian | Christopher Chittell |
Indian | Nicholas Edmett |
Indian | Terence Knapp |
Indian | Alan Ridgway |
Indian | Clive Rust |
Indian | Pauline Taylor |
Indian; T/O Domingo | Ron Pember |
Indian; U/S Chieftain; T/O Chieftain; U/S Felipillo | Michael Byrne |
Inti Coussi | Louise Purnell |
JUan Chavez; T/O Rodas | Christopher Timothy |
Manco; T/O FRay Marcos de Nizza | Neil Fitzpatrick |
Martin Ruiz | Robert Lang |
Martin Ruiz as a boy | Roy Holder |
Oello | Caroline John |
Pedro de Candia | Frank Wylie |
Rodas | Trevor Martin |
Salinas | Dan Meaden |
T/O Challcuchima | Anthony Hopkins |
T/O Diego de Trujillo | Oliver Cotton |
T/O Fray Vincente de Valverde | Peter Cellier |
T/O Garcia | John McEnery |
T/O Headman; T/O Pedro de Candia | David Ryall |
T/O Indian | Alan Adams |
T/O Indian | Chloe Ashcroft |
T/O Indian | David Belcher |
T/O Indian | Alan Collins |
T/O Indian | Barry Evans |
T/O Indian | Kay Gallie |
T/O Indian | Luke Hardy |
T/O Indian | Jennie Heslewood |
T/O Indian | Carolyn Jones |
T/O Indian | Michael York |
T/O Indian; T/O Juan Chavez | Roger Kemp |
T/O Indian; T/O Martin Ruiz as a boy; T/O Manco | Malcolm Reynolds |
T/O Indian; T/O Salinas | Ronald Pickup |
T/O Indian; T/O Vasca | Denis De Marne |
T/O Martin Ruiz | Gerald James |
T/O Martin Ruiz; T/O Francisco Pizzarro | Paul Curran |
T/O Miguel Estete | Graham Crowden |
T/O Salinas | David Bailie |
T/O Salinas | John Hallam |
T/O Salinas | Lennard Pearce |
T/O Vasca | John Savident |
Vasca | Robert Russell |
Villac Umu | Edward Petherbridge |
Crew | |
Assistant director | Desmond O’Donovan |
Assistant to Director | Mark Cullingham |
Composer | Marc Wilkinson |
Designer | Michael Annals |
Director | John Dexter |
Lighting | John B Read |
Lighting designer | Brian Freeland |
Movement | Claude Chagrin |
Musician | Tommy Cooper |
Musician | Roy Jones |
Musician | Laurie Morgan |
Musician | Frederick Stancliffe |
Photographer | Angus McBean |
Stage Manager | John Rothenberg |
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Observations
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After seeing this production I persuaded Lusaka Theatre Club in Zambia to mount a production in 1970. Atahuallpa was played by a Zambian dancer named Edwin Manda. The great sun was built by Mike Jackson based on my descriptions of the NT production sun. I played Young Martin Ruiz.
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Programme cover photograph by Chris Arthur
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It was a remarkable production. After its week run (normal for Lusaka) a special performance was requested by President Kenneth Kaunda, and attended by him and guests. I remember Frank Adams, who played Young Martin, while I was Old Martin the play’s narrator. The part of Pizzarro was played by Alan Simmance. It was the first Lusaka Theatre Club production that I remember to have been truly multi-racial.
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