Rashomon
- Summary
- 1961 BBC studio production of Rashomon, the stage adaptation by Fay and Michael Kanin of Japanese tales by Ryunosuke Akutagawa.
- Theatre play
- Rashomon by Michael Kanin and Fay Kanin [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Friday 3 March 1961
- Time
- 9.10-10.40pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Rudolph Cartier
- Playwright
- Fay Kanin
- Playwright
- Michael Kanin
- Original Story by
- Ryunosuke Akutagawa
- Composer
- Laurence Rosenthal
- Conductor
- Laurence Rosenthal
- Designer
- Clifford Hatis
- Fight Arranger
- Senta Yamada
- Cast
Hamilton Dyce The Priest Robert Hardy The Husband Lee Montague The Bandit Roy Patrick The Bailiff Richard Pearson The Woodcutter Cyril Shaps The Wigmaker Hira Talfrey The Mother Yoko Tani The Wife Eileen Way The Medium
Additional details
- Origination
- Recorded in studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- Japan, as theme or setting
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 23 February 1961 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- cover image; illustrated full-page feature, p. 55; listing, p. 57
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