Community Asian Theatre of the Sierra (CATS) would like to offer high school and college-age students the experience of “The Rashomon Effect” – the phenomenon of perception and truth and understanding the general unreliability of eyewitnesses. The Effect is named after Akira Kurosawa's 1950 acclaimed Japanese film -- Rashomon --  the stage version will be presented as CATS’ 2026 spring play at the Nevada Theatre from April 23 to May 16, 2026.  It centers around the demise of a samurai whose death is described in four contradictory ways. “The Rashomon Effect” has been used as a storytelling method in which an event is given contradictory interpretations by the individuals involved, thereby providing different perspectives and points of view of the same incident.  The term is used to describe how different witnesses are able to produce incompatible, yet plausible, accounts of the same event.