BY POPULAR DEMAND
CARRADINE
extended !!!!!
February 10, 11, 12 @ 8:00
February 13 @ 2:00
Students with valid ID, $5 every Thursday!
ANOTHER
KKT WORLD PREMIERE !
One
of these things is not like
the others . . .
David
Carradine Not
Chinese
by
Darrell H.Y. Lum
(All
photos on the KKT site are
by Brad Goda unless noted)
“Howdy,
partner.” Come see if
Cowboy Wat (Keith Kashiwada)
and wife Columbia (Alissa Joy Lee) bring happy trails to you.
Sixteen-year-old
Truman Wat and
his twelve-year-old brother Lincoln aren’t the only family members with
famous names. Their father is Rutger and their two uncles are Stanford
and Princeton. This collection of characters takes us on a comic
journey through contemporary Hawai‘i and 20th-century American media
from the Charlie Chan movies to Hawai‘i
Five-O and the television
series Kung Fu (which starred
David Carradine as a Shaolin priest), as
well as comic book superheroes, the Lawrence
Welk Show, the Ed Sullivan
Show and the cowboy stylings of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans.
Playwright
Lum, who has a talent for dealing with serious issues in a lighthearted
style, is at his comic best in this tale of convoluted racial
stereotypes (“David Carradine not Chinese. Charlie Chan not Chinese.
The real Chinese have always been number two--Number One Son, Master
Po, even Kam Fong”), local attitudes and pun-ridden dialogue,
culminating in a hilarious evening at the Wat-Chu Society annual
banquet. This play was commissioned by Kumu Kahua.
“I
no can say dis kine Chinese
speech,” laments Cowboy Wat, as brothers Pull-My-Finger
(left, Alvin
Chan) and Primo (Rodney Kwock) show no sympathy. “Kung how chee
whatevah.” See why Cowboy needs to learn Chinese in Lum's new comic
play.
Thursday,
Friday and Saturday
8pm: January 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 27, 28, 29; February 3,
4, 5, 2005
Sundays
2pm: January 9, 16, 23,
30, 2005
Meet
playwright Darrell H.Y. Lum
and the Cast
Meet
director John H.Y. Wat, the Crew,
and the rest of KKT
David Carradine Not
Chinese : A Guide for Educators
Read
Darrell's Q&A session with Wayne Harada
Mahalo nui loa to Kumu's Generous
Donors!
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Kahua's 100-seat playhouse puts
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credit, our reputation attracts some of Hawaii's most talented actors,
directors, playwrights, designers and other theater artists and
technicians.
Kumu Kahua Theatre
46 Merchant Street, Honolulu, Hawai`i 96813
Box Office Phone: (808) 536-4441
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