| I saw The Royal Hunt of the Sun while in high school. Up until that time my only exposure to theater was naturalistic plays and musicals. In the jargon of that era, the play blew my mind. The memory is so vivid of the group of us, friends who'd put on plays at school, staggering out of the theater, thrilled by the experience and full of an intense need to talk about what we'd just seen. I can still see in my memory that staging with the disc shaped stage tilted down to the edge of the proscenium. And of course the mesmerizing performances of the two leads, the costumes and sound design. Yes, mind-blowing. |
