Colin Teevan's plays include The Kingdom, There Was A Man/There Was No Man, Kafka's Monkey, The Lion of Kabul, How Many Miles to Basra?, Missing Persons, Alcmaeon in Corinth, Monkey! and The Walls. He is also co-author of The Bee and The Diver with Hideki Noda. His translations include Iph..., Bacchai, Cuckoos and Marathon. He has also written stage adaptations of Don Quixote with Pablo Ley, svejk, Peer Gynt and Doctor Faustus. All are published by Oberon Books. Television writing credits include Vera, Silk, Single Handed and he is the writer and creator of the mini-series Charlie and the Netflix Original Series Rebellion.

Master of transformation Kathryn Hunter brings to life an extraordinary fable of corruption, avarice and the collapse of absolute power.
A world premiere based on the astonishing book by legendary journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski about the decline and fall of Haile Selassie's regime in Ethiopia, from the team that brought you Kafka's Monkey. Hunter creates a mesmerising cast of characters, all servants to a despotic ruler on the brink of downfall. In a kingdom obsessed with title and tradition, the lowly and the loyal have incredible stories to tell.