 The play was staged as part of the fourth Adelaide Festival of Arts in 1966.It was directed by John Tasker, designed by Wendy Dickson, with choreography by Margaret Barr.The play was filmed on location by the now defunct National General Pictures studio in 1969, with Robert Shaw as Pizarro, Christopher Plummer switching roles to play Atahualpa, Nigel Davenport as Hernando De Soto, and Leonard Whiting, in his first role after "Romeo and Juliet", as Young Martin (Old Martin was omitted from the film).