"The Royal Hunt of the Sun is an epxerience in total theater, in which language, music, masks and dance contirbute to the creation of a magnificient and powerful spectacle. An historial drama of the Spanish conquest of Peru, the plays expands the limits of the satge to depict the clash ofr amies and the plunder of thge Inca treasure. And at its heart is the conflict between the aging Pizarro, leader of the conquistadores, and the younf ruler Atahuallpa, who beleives that he is descended from the Sun God and will never die" contraportada