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Rashomon

TheatreUSF presents "Rashomon."

Rashomon

by Fay and Michael Kanin
Spring 2007
Directed by David Mann
Scenic Design: G.B. Stephens
Costume Design: Bill Brewer
Lighting Design: David Williams
Sound Design: Dave Herpich
Properties Design: Bill Lorenzen
Fight Choreographer: Tiza Garland

A woman with colorful makeup and attire holds a wooden staff topped with an antler in one hand and raises her other palm with her fingers outstretched.

A man with a scar on his cheek and patterns on his bare chest lunges into warrior position with his left leg and right arm extended backward while his left leg is lunged forward and his right arm extended forward. The man is wielding a sword in his right hand. Another man is leaning forward on his bent left leg and his right leg behind him, he is pointing down and back with his right hand while his left is clenched in a fist as he speaks emphatically.

A man in orange, cloth clothing and a hat holds on one end of a cloth with both hands tightly while kneeling on the ground. A woman lying on the ground holds the other part of the cloth with both hands, one nearer o the first person’s hands, as she looks at the person kneeling in front of her.

A woman in formal, floral attire accented in gold and makeup is spotlighted on stage. She is looking downward diagonal of stage left and has her right hand on her chest and her left hand at her side with the palm parallel to the floor. An older woman in multi-patterned attire watches the woman behind her from out of the spotlight.

Two men are lunging outward, bodies positioned toward the audience, yet they are looking at each other with wide eyes and bared teeth. The man on the left holds two sharpened wooden sticks with metal points in each hand while the man on the right wields a sword. A woman poses behind them in the background- she wears formal, floral attire with gold accents while holding an open fan held high in her right hand positioned toward her face while she raises her left arm and her palm parallel to the ceiling. She has a look of attitude on her face.

Three characters are onstage. Two men, one in orange clothes looking toward stage right and a bald man looking toward stage left, sit with their legs crossed in the foreground and mid-ground, respectively. A third man with a hairy foot is balanced on the side of a column, the hairy footed leg wrapped around the column while the other foot is on the platform holding the column for balance as the man raises his hands outward and he looks to the ceiling near stage left.