Rashōmon, in Kyoto, Japan was the great southern gate of the city, now derelict where people left unwanted corpses and conducted other such unpleasant business. It had a reputation for harbouring thieves and generally, persons of disrepute. As a locale for storytelling or discourse on various forms of societal decay in literature or the performance arts, Rashōmon is easily a good launching pad. The title was first that of a traditional short story that was subsequently made into a film in 1950 that became a classic and then subsequently into a play.
The preceding paragraph was written by Rebecca Robinson who interviewed the Director, Dr. Danielle Lyndersay of the UWI Department of Creative and Festival Arts before the play ran. It turned out to be quite a success as these photos by Aaron Mohammed of TCDMedia suggest.
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