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Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Rashomon
by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Michael Kanin, Fay Kanin
Highlights
Awards & Recognition
Tony Award
Nominee! 3 Tony Awards, 1959
Synopsis
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.
Press Reviews
"Delicate and dynamic, sensitive and savage, packed with color, suspense and seamy wit. A triumph of stagecraft."
— New York 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."
— The New York Times
Publication
Publisher Samuel French
Year 2011
Binding Paperback
Pages 72
Place New York
Language English
ISBN-13 9780573614651
ISBN-10 0573614652
LCCN 59004824
LCC PS3521.A448 R3 1959a
Rashomon is a American play written by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa and published by Samuel French in New York (2011).
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