The Nigerian Nobel laureate's story of a royal servant condemned to kill himself after his master's death has lost none of its enigmatic appeal Sheffield is in luck. The Crucible theatre next month offers a rare staging of an extraordinary play: Death and the King's Horseman by Wole Soyinka. I saw Rufus Norris's brilliant production at the National Theatre in 2009 and included the work in my book on The 101 Greatest …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AM on January 7, 2025