Word: rashomon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...government's numerous and conflicting stories about the assassination resembled a political drama concocted by the author of Rashomon. Last week martial law investigators issued what they called their "final" report. It concluded that Korean Central Intelligence Agency Director Kim Jae Kyu had killed Park because Kim had wild fantasies that he himself should be President. The report exonerated the military of any involvement in Kim's coup attempt; it also credited the martial law commander, Army Chief of Staff General Chung Seung Hwa, 53, with foiling the plot by arresting Kim and the other murderers. The investigation...
This play is literate, wise, perceptive, humane and wryly humorous, but as drama it needs a blood transfusion. Structure may be the chief culprit. Irish Play wright Brian Friel has divided the play into four Rashomon-style monologues. The first and last are spoken by Frank (James Mason), the faith healer, the second by Grace (Clarissa Kaye), his wife, and the third by Teddy (Donal Donnelly), Frank's promotional warmup...
...characters Round and Round the Garden. Though each play can stand on its own, the trilogy forms an enormous jigsaw puzzle: every time a character leaves the room to go somewhere else in the house, his exit becomes an entrance in one of the other plays. Through Ayckbourn's Rashomon-like device, the audience feels that it learns the whole truth about the people onstage...
...Rashomon, the Japanese legend made into a movie, airline executives have widely differing views about the same phenomenon: in this case the spreading cut-rate fares on U.S. and transatlantic flights. What is beyond dispute is that the often bewildering variety of bargains offered by the eleven long-haul lines is stimulating a rush to pleasure travel. That in turn is helping to give the industry a much needed lift...
...Rashomon. At the Dunster Dining Hall, Friday and Saturday...