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Southernmost
WRITTEN BY MARY LYON KAMITAKI
JANUARY 23 - FEBRUARY 23, 2025
For former fisherman Wally Chaves, who lives with his retired wife Becky in the familiar hills of Ka'u at the southernmost tip of the Big Island, planting keiki trees for a coffee farm is giving him new life. When daughter Charlene visits with her girlfriend Jessica—Wally calls her “one vegetarian lesbian”—everything begins to get unstable. But when earthquakes start to really shake things up, should they stay or should they go?
THE MAGIC OF POLLY AMNESIA
WRITTEN BY TONY PISCULLI
MARCH 27 - APRIL 27, 2025
Polly Amnesia — orphan, magician, punk — takes the stage for her one-woman magic show. Throughout her act, she attempts to sort hope from delusion, dreams from bullshit and true magic from trickery as she recounts her quixotic quest to solve the mystery of her own identity and the family that abandoned her. But in tonight’s performance, something is going terribly wrong...
THE GOLDEN GAYS
WRITTEN BY Ryan “Oki”naka
May 29 - June 29, 2025
Aunty Maria Lani Tunta is the free, fierce, and fabulous mother to a chosen family of queens facing their golden years and ready for second chances. What does it mean for a drag queen to be in their 70s, for a sexual player to keep up his game, for a divorced man to explore being gay for the first time, for a widower to date again? These bitches bicker, tease, and challenge each other to move on, and they do it in makeup and heels. In this crazy life you have to seize the cheesecake. This script was inspired by the groundbreaking show: The Golden Girls.
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Our Digital Stage
Kumu Kahua Theatre presented a portion of our 50th and 51st Seasons virtually. We also launched a variety of online exclusive content, and hosted new digital play festivals in partnership with creative collectives around the country.
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