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Around the World in 80 Plays: Death and the King's Horseman
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:54:06
Publish Date: 2022-03-25 04:10:00
Description: What happens when sacred rituals that are integral to Yoruba society are interrupted by a colonial power? Does life go on? Or will this spiritual wrong be righted? Nobel laureate and playwright Wole Soyinka answers these questions in his 1975 play Death and the King's Horseman. This episode is in collaboration with Soulpepper Theatre Company's Around the World in 80 Plays series. It originally aired on June 9, 2021.
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