By Clare Jenkins, February 2025 Wole Soyinka – the first African writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature – wrote Death and the King’s Horseman in the early 1970s, not long after the end of the civil war in his native Nigeria and less than two decades after independence from British rule. Yet, despite its story of a sacred Yoruba ritual being destroyed by white colonialists, the playwright has insisted it’s not about a ‘clash of cultures’. And although it might sometimes seem that way in this Utopia Theatre/Sheffield Theatres co-production, with the white characters shown as arrogant, disrespectful … Continue reading Death and the King’s Horseman – Review – Sheffield Crucible Theatre