The Emperor at Theatre for a New Audience

The Emperor explores political power. Set at the brink of Selassie’s downfall, Hunter gets inside of ten different male servants of Haile Selassie, including his pillow-bearer, purse-bearer and dog-urine wiper, to create complex human portraits. Kapu?ci?ski, who many consider a candidate for the Nobel Prize, cagily used The Emperor to illuminate corruption and avarice in his native country, communist Poland. Today, as adapted and performed by this incomparable theatrical team, the material just as strongly illuminates our world’s continuing and disturbing fascination with despotism.

Authors

• George White
• Hermann Gressieker