Programme - March 1969
Original Magazine Supplied By Steve Czyrko
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HISTORICAL NOTE
 Peru under the Incas was a quietly contented state without poverty or begging. Artistic expression particularly in metal craft, reached a high level. Invasion from without was unknown and the rule of the Sapa Inca was in most instances benign. Yet it possessed two great weaknesses which, with the arrival of Pizarro, proved its undoing. The absence of a written language made the cbmmunication of a Potential threat impossible. Secondly, so centralized was the empire that without the Sapa Inca's explicit orders, no action could be taken. Pizarro, probably born in 1471, was illegitimate and grew up in the most squalid of rural surroundings. He was a member of Balboa's party that discovered the Pacific when he first heard rumours of the existence of Peru and of the Inca gold, This rumour was confirmed on a later trip in 1524 when he captured natives with some crude gold ornaments. As a result of Pizurro's conquest of Peru and Cortes' of the Aztec kingdom of Mexico, Spain became flooded with gold. With this surfeit of gold, prices rose, inflation was given its head, and Spain started on the steady economic decline from which she has never recovered. The play starts in Spain and then moves to the Upper Province of the Inca Empire (what is now North Western Peru). The whole of the 2nd act takes place in the town of Cajamarca. |
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