AUDITIONS SET FOR KUMU KAHUA’S PRODUCTION OF THE KĀMAU TRILOGY Kāmau, Kāmau Aʻe and Ua Pau by Alani Apio directed by Harry Wong III
AUDITIONS SET FOR KUMU KAHUA’S PRODUCTION OF
THE KĀMAU TRILOGY
Kāmau, Kāmau Aʻe and Ua Pau
by Alani Apio
directed by Harry Wong III
Sunday February 11th from 6pm to 9pm
and Tuesday February 13th from 6pm to 9pm
at Kumu Kahua Theatre
46 Merchant Street Honolulu, HI 96813
Open auditions will be held to cast The Kāmau Trilogy by Alani Apio
WHERE: Kumu Kahua Theatre, 46 Merchant Street
WHEN: Sunday February 11th and Tuesday February 13th at 6:00 pm (Auditioners need only come to one audition). Callbacks as needed.
Rehearsals will begin immediately, but not all casts will be called for every rehearsal.
Performances will be from May 30th - June 30th 2024, Thursdays-Saturdays at 7:00 pm, Sundays at 1:00 pm (All three plays will be performed on Sundays). There is the possibility of added performances.
Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script. Sides will be provided. Actors can prepare a monologue from the script if they desire to but it is not required.
Please note any conflicts on audition form.
Script Synopsis:
Kāmau
Exploring the concepts of aloha and kuleana (responsibility), Kāmau follows three cousins who were raised in their family's beach-side home and taught that they must care for the land to ensure the survival of their ʻohana. When their ancestral homestead is sold to build a hotel, the cousins’ perspectives on kuleana put them at odds. Michael will not abandon his responsibility to the ʻāina, and refuses to leave. Left to provide for the family alone, Alika must choose between joining Michael’s battle against the resort — at the expense of his niece, Stevie, and her mother, Lisa — or continuing to work for the very corporation that has displaced them.
Kāmau Aʻe
Part two of the Kāmau trilogy picks up ten years later as Michael is released from prison and returns immediately to occupy the beach that he was evicted from. He has become a member of a sovereignty group (‘Ai Pōhaku) that has embraced his quest to retake his ancestral homestead. Alika is now the resort’s manager: offering cultural tours and classes, providing hundreds of jobs for Native Hawaiians. The cousins’ worldviews once again collide, and they are used as pawns against each other as larger forces vie for control of the place that was once their home.
Ua Pau
In this explosive finale to the Kāmau trilogy, past and present collide as Stevie returns home from college and uncovers hidden truths about her family. Devastated, she begins to experience and unravel the inter-generational trauma that haunts them all. Her struggle to release old ghosts and claim her place — and her kuleana — will determine whether she and her ʻohana survive intact, or at all.
PERFORMANCE DATES
Thursdays at 7 p.m. HST
Kāmau: May 30 & June 6, 13, 20, 27
Fridays at 7 p.m. HST
Kāmau Aʻe: May 31 & June 7, 14, 21, 28
Saturdays at 7 p.m. HST
Ua Pau: June 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
Sundays at 1 p.m. HST
Kāmau Trilogy: June 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
Director Harry Wong is looking for actors to play the following roles.
Kāmau
Alika Kaleiha‘aheo‘onākūpuna Kealoha. 20’s part-Kanaka-looking male
Mom Mid-30s to mid 40s part-Kanaka-looking female
Boss Middle-aged-looking white male
George Mahekona Early 20’s part-Kanaka-looking male
Michael Mahekona Early 20’s part-Kanaka-looking male
Mrs. Yamamoto Japanese-looking female school teacher
Mabel Clements Older white-looking female, speaks with a southern U.S. accent
Henry Clements Older white-looking male, speaks with a southern U.S. accent
Lisa. White-looking 20s female
Stevie Kalei Mahekona “tween”-age hapa-looking female
Building Inspector Local-looking male, 20s-30s
Security Guard. Local-looking male, 20s-30s
Kāmau A'e
Michael Kawaipono Mahekona 30s part-Kanaka-looking male
Lisa Kealoha 30s white-looking female
Alika Kealoha 30s part-Kanaka-looking male
Ghost of George Mahekona 20’s part-Kanaka-looking male
Ghost of Tūtū Kāne Elder Kanaka-looking male
Anita Sanchez 30s female
Carolyn ‘Aukai Part-Kanaka-looking female
Lahela Mau Part-Kanaka-looking female
Bully Mack Part-Kanaka-looking male
Wainani Carson Part-Kanaka-looking female
Raynell Hashimoto Mid-20s to Mid 30s local female
Ua Pau
Alika Kealoha- Hotel General Manager, Early 50s part-Kanaka-looking male
Michael Mahekona (Maiko)- Alika's older cousin, Mid-50s part-Kanaka-looking male
George Mahekona- Michael's suicide brother, 20’s part-Kanaka-looking male
Mona- Alika's assistant/lover, 30-something Female
Stevie-Girl- Alika's adopted daughter, Part-Kanaka-looking 20s female
Lisa- Stevie-Girl's mother, Alika's wife, mid-40s white looking Female
Samuel- Alika's father, Late-20s part-Kanaka-looking male
Mom- Alika's Mother, Mid-30s part-Kanaka-looking female
You can read the scripts by Clicking Here
Call the Kumu Kahua Theatre office 536-4222 or email officemanager@kumukahua.org if you need more information.
ALANI APIO grew up in Pu‘uloa - also known as ‘Ewa Beach - in a family of fishermen. He graduated from Kamehameha Schools and the University of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa (UHM), with a degree in Drama and Theatre. Now, he lives in Kailua and grows some of his own food in his backyard, “’Cause no more ‘nuff fish around nowadays.”
Apio is a noted Hawaiian playwright, sculptor, and actor. His plays Kāmau and its sequels Kāmau A’e and Ua Pau tackle complex issues related to Hawaiian identity and family relationships.
He’s a founding and current board member of Hui Aloha (huialoha.org)
and works as a community consultant for companies on sustainability projects and projects that have potential Native Hawaiian burial issues.
Kumu Kahua productions are supported in part by the NME Fund of the Hawaiʻi Community Foundation, the Island Insurance Foundation, The State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, through appropriations from the Legislature of the State of Hawaiʻi, The AAPI Community Fund, The Richard Aadland Fund, The Hawaiʻi Tourism Authority, The Honolulu Star-Advertiser, The John R. Halligan Charitable Fund, Spectrum/Charter Communications, ABC Stores, the Gloria Kosasa Gainsley Fund, Hawaiʻi Public Radio, H. Hawaii Media, Simply Storage, The Kim Coco Fund for Justice of the Iwamoto Family Foundation, Vacations Hawaiʻi, Zippy’s Restaurants, Highway Inn, Generations Magazine, CVS/Longs Drugs, HMSA, Hawaiian Electric, MonkeyPod, Edric Sakamoto, Ron and Rachel Heller, Leonard and Charlotte Chow, and other foundations, businesses, and loyal patrons.