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Yabuhara: The Blind
Master Minstrel
Hisashi Inoue 's bawdy comedy charts the rise of a blind minstrel to the top ranks of Japanese society through murder, theft and extortion.
With David Bannerman , Ronald Herdman , Siriol
Jenkins, Charles Millham , Joanna Myers ,
Margaret Shade , Susan Sheridan , Auriol Smith and Andrew Wincott
Translated and adapted by Marguerite Wells
Songs by Koichiro Uno
Additional music Mia Soteriou
Director Ned Chaillet

Contributors

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Hisashi Inoue
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David Bannerman
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Ronald Herdman
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Charles Millham
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Joanna Myers
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Margaret Shade
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Susan Sheridan
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Auriol Smith
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Andrew Wincott
Songs By:
Koichiro Uno
Director:
Ned Chaillet
Storyteller:
John Woodvine
Sugi no Ichi:
Roger Allam
Oichi:
Mia Soteriou

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