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The Emperor review " majestic Kathryn Hunter gives 10 great performances by Michael Billington

Young Vic, LondonHunter is a strutting minister one minute and the emperor's pillow-bearer the next in this shrewd and resonant account of Haile Selassie's fall from graceThis is not the first stage version of Ryszard KapuÅ›ciÅ„ski's extraordinary book about the downfall of the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie. In 1987, Jonathan Miller and Michael Hastings did an excellent adaptation for the Royal Court that ca…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:20AM on September 9, 2016

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