53rd Season
(2023 – 2024)

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After losing his mother during the 2018 lava flow, Kūkunu has disconnected from culture and community, and taken refuge in a new marriage. However, his daughter’s dangerous position at the forefront of the TMT controversy forces him to intervene, setting in motion a series of events which not all will survive. Through this crisis, we learn that someone who is “broken” may not be able to love in an ordinary way; but may instead love in a most extraordinary way.

Read John Berger’s review in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser!

PERFORMANCE DATES

Thursdays / Fridays / Saturdays at 7 p.m. HST
August 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26, 31 & September 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 14, 15, 16

Sundays at 2 p.m. HST
August 20, 27 & September 3,10, 17

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When a wealthy Native Hawaiian developer proposes creating a theme park exploring the influences of Caucasians in Hawaiʻi, the multi-ethnic Board of Commissioners debates the ramifications of such a proposal, and its members are forced to confront shared complicity in a complicated island history. The final decision isn't easy for any of them.

PERFORMANCE DATES

Thursdays / Fridays / Saturdays at 7 p.m. HST
November 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 24, 25, 30 & December 1, 2

Sundays at 2 p.m. HST
November 5, 12, 19, 26 & December 3

(No show November 23 for Thanksgiving)

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Famed writer Robert Louis Stevenson and his family become infatuated with two fascinating ʻafakasi visitors who come to stay at their home in Vailima, Sāmoa. To a backdrop of dreams, literary musings and ghost stories, relationships evolve and collide resulting in serious life-changing confrontations. The delicate strands of the play weave together like a fine mat as Tusitala and his companions move through the uncharted realms of the vā.

This production includes stylized sexual violence.

PERFORMANCE DATES

Thursdays / Fridays / Saturdays at 7 p.m. HST
January 25, 26, 27 & February 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 16, 17, 22, 23, 24, 25

(There is also a 2 p.m. show on Sat, February 10)

Sundays at 2 p.m. HST
January 28 & February 4, 18*, 25

(No show February 11 for the Super Bowl)

*American Sign Language interpretation on Sunday, February 18.

Please note: Strobe lighting and other intense lighting effects are used during this show. It may not be safe for those with epilepsy and other conditions with sensitivity to light. Please contact our box office at 808-536-4441 to learn more.

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With the help of her imaginary dragon friend, Connie navigates the twists and turns of young love, her parents’ perplexing relationship, her tangled extended family, and loss — first of her grandfather, and later her grandmother. Like a book of old family photos, Beretania Snapshots is chock-full of nostalgic references to plays and people from Honolulu’s recent past, and reminds us to treasure one another before the memories fade.

PERFORMANCE DATES

Thursdays / Fridays / Saturdays at 7 p.m. HST
March 28, 29, 30 & April 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 27

Sundays at 2 p.m. HST
April 7, 14, 21, 28

(No show March 31 for Easter)

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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