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Return from Paradise

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Fudaraku-no-Kishibe by KIYOKAZU YAMAMOTO translated from the Japanese by JOHN BESTER Music by SEIlCHIRO UNO This play, set in 16thcentury 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 NIIK. 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
Fr Joao Alimeida:
Hugh Dickson
Tozen, the Holy Voyager:
Steve Hodson
Haru a bikunt:
Jill Lidstonk
Chief supervisor:
John Bott
Official Senshiro Harada:
Anthony Newlands
Old women.:
Margot Boyd
Actor:
Peggy Paige
Old women.:
Katherine Parr
Old women.:
Gladys Spencer
Source: Radio Times

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