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Rashomon by Fay Kanin and Michael Kanin
Rashomon was adapted from Ryūnosuke Akutagawa’s short stories Rashomon and In a Grove. Its stage adaptation was written by American playwrights Fay Kanin and Michael Kanin in 1959. It has been on Broadway, receiving 3 nominations for the Tony Awards.

The story is familiar to all, but Director Tony Wong adapted the story with both the classical and contemporary techniques running in parallel. He made use of body language to portray the internal and external warfare of the roles. Together with the unique rhythm, weaknesses of the human heart were displayed. Internal struggles of the roles were reflected in the dances of the ensemble. With the ups and downs of the rhythm, the dances transited from heavy steps to easy ones. The audience could view the "objective truth" easily. In the dark, would they ask their conscience...?

After his death, the samurai who appeared strong but was actually weak upheld his status as ever through the mouth of the psychic.

It was ""piece-by-piece killing"" of the husband's honourable identity when the samurai wife was willing to be humiliated because of her husband's failure to protect her. The various movements of the lustful thief and the samurai led to laughter from the audience.

The woodcutter led the audience to experience a recurrence of the case with the eyewitness' vision. He was a small citizen, but he admitted that he had also become a thief...

The most brutal battlefield always exists in the chaotic mind.

As the Director says, forgiving and loving others may make the world better.

Original
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Adaptation
Fay Kanin and Michael Kanin
Translator
Dominic CHEUNG
Director
Tony WONG*
Choreographer
Allen LAM
Set Designer
YUEN Hon-wai
Costume Designer
Fanny HO
Lighting Designer
Billy CHAN
Composer and Sound Designer
Labroe LEE
Cast
Edmond LO, Johnny TAN, Grace WU, Christopher YING, MAK Pui-tung, LEUNG Chung-hang, WONG Hiu-yee, Zue WONG, CHEUNG Yan-ha#, LAI Yat-ching Sunny#, LAU Wai-yiu#, LEE Sum-yu#, MA Yat-ha#, SHE Lok-in#, TANG Pak-chung#, TSE Tsz-kwan#, TUNG Long-sang#, WONG Kit-yi#
Production Manager
Joey TSANG
Producer
Christy LEE
* With kind permission of The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts # With kind permission of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in support of the internship programme
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