Rashomon (acting Edition) [Paperback]

Drama

Fay Kanin and Michael Kanin

Characters: 6 male, 3 female

Exterior Set

The famous stories of Akutagawa were adapted for Broadway for Claire Bloom, Rod Steiger, Akim Tamiroff and Oscar Homolka. The wife of a Samurai officer is assaulted and her husband killed by a roving bandit. Contradictory versions of what happened are reenacted at the trial by the bandit, the wife and the dead husband who speaks through a sorceress. Each version is true in its fashion.

Delicate and dynamic, sensitive and savage, packed with color, suspense and seamy wit. A triumph of stagecraft. N.Y. Mirror.

Rashomon is pure art of the theatre. Out of a legend, it conjures a mood. No one need despair of a commercial theatre that can deal in elusive materials with so much delicacy, expertness and charm. N.Y. Times.

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