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Return from Paradise

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(Fudaraku-no-Kishlbe) by KIYOKAZU YAMAMOTO translated from the Japanese by JOHN BESTER
Music by SEIICHIRO UNO This play, set in 16th-century Japan, deals with a clash of Christian and Buddhist Ideas about the voyage to Fudaraku (paradise) - in western eyes a type of ritual suicide.
It won the RAI prize at the 1981 Prix Italia in its Japanese production by NHK. This English production uses the original music and sound effects tapes. with NIGEL GRAHAM and members of the GEKIDAN SUBARU
Directed by IAN COTTERELL

Contributors

Unknown:
Kiyokazu Yamamoto
Unknown:
John Bester
Unknown:
Nigel Graham
Directed By:
Ian Cotterell
Father Joao Almeida:
Hugh Dickson
Tozen, the Holy Voyager:
Steve Hodson
Haru, a blkuni:
Jill Lidstone
Chief Supervisor:
John Bott
Official Senshiro Harada:
Anthony Newlands
Old Women:
Margot Boyd
Old Women:
Peggy Paige
Old Women:
Katherine Parr
Old Women:
Gladys Spencer
Source: Radio Times

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