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Our 2005 - 2006 Season
35th Season of Plays for and about Hawai`i
The season opens with Tea by Velina Hasu Houston. Four Japanese
women, all post-World War II immigrants with American servicemen husbands,
meet at the home of a fifth, who has committed suicide. They clean up the
house, drink tea together, and come to know each other and the dead woman,
who haunts the play as a restless spirit. "Without being tough, they are
strong," says playwright Houston. "Without being weak, they are gentle.
Without being aggressive, they are survivors." First produced by Kumu in
1990, this new production of Tea opens in August 2005. Thursday, Friday & Saturday @ 8 pm, August 25, 26, 27; September 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 15, 17, 22, 23, 24, 2005 Sunday @ 2 pm, August 28, September 4, 11, 18, 25, 2005
In Dennis Carroll's Age Sex Location, four generations of a local
family confront the complexities and perils of cyberspace. When a computer
is brought home to help daughter Janine with her job, everyone wants to
log on. But the family's existing problems--financial troubles,
Alzheimers, and parent-child conflict--only get more intense in the world
of Internet gambling and online chat-room dating. A four-person
Compuchorus calls out Internet jargon, pop-up advertising, and Instant
Messages, as the computer becomes a complex and sinister character. A
world premiere, Age Sex Location opens in October 2005. Thursday, Friday & Saturday @ 8 pm, October 27, 28, 29; November 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, 25, 26, 2005 Sunday @ 2 pm, October 30; November 6, 13, 20, 27, 2005
With book and lyrics by Lee Cataluna and music by Sean T. C. O'Malley,
Ulua: The Musical deals with life, love, and fishing on Maui. Local
boy Kayden Asiu leaves his job, his Soloflex, and his fiancee Lylas on
O`ahu to explore life's options on Maui. Butchie and Clyson, two
co-workers, introduce him to the joys of all-night ulua fishing. But Lylas
follows Kayden to Maui, Butchie's fiancee gets upset, and eventually the
women follow their men to the ulua, and the sea. First staged by Kumu in
1999, this musical comedy comes to the intimate KKT stage for the first
time. Ulua: The Musical opens in January 2006.Thursday, Friday & Saturday @ 8 pm, January 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21, 26, 27, 28; February 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 2006 Sunday @ 2 pm, January 15, 22, 29; February 12, 2006
In the words of its playwright Albert Wendt, The Songmaker's Chair
"introduces audiences to the lives of those courageous migrant families
who have made Auckland and Aotearoa their home." A story of conflict,
continuity, and change in three generations of an extended Samoan family,
this play enjoyed sold-out houses during its recent world premiere
productions in New Zealand. The first full-length play by one of the
foremost Pacific novelists and essayists, The Songmaker's Chair
opens in March 2006. Thursday, Friday & Saturday @ 8 pm, March 16, 17, 18, 23, 24, 25, 30, 31; April 1, 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 2006 Sunday @ 2 pm, March 19, 26; April 2, 9, 2006
Based on a true story, Eric Anderson's Another Heaven tells a
tale of racial conflict, ambition, and greed in late nineteenth-century
Hawai`i. Katsu Goto, owner of a general store, tries to help the Japanese
plantation workers stand up for their rights against their foreman and the
plantation owner. Violence ensues, and an investigator from Honolulu
comes looking for evidence that others would rather keep buried. This
historical drama won the Kumu Kahua Playwriting Competition's Hawaii Prize
in 2001. Another Heaven opens in May 2006. Thursday, Friday & Saturday @ 8 pm, May 18, 19, 20, 25, 26 27; June 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17, 2006 Sunday @ 2 pm, May 21, 28; June 4, 11, 18, 2006
For more information about individual shows, or becoming a Season Subscriber, call 536-4441, or write to kumukahuatheatre@hawaiiantel.net.
Plays from 2004-2005
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