Haoleland by Anthony Michael Oliver directed by Harry Wong III

AUDITON DATES FOR:

KUMU KAHUA’S PRODUCTION OF

Haoleland by Anthony Michael Oliver

directed by Harry Wong III

Sunday August 27 and Monday August 28 
at 6:00 pm
at Kumu Kahua Theatre 
46 Merchant Street Honolulu, HI 96813

Script Synopsis:

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.

Auditions: Sunday and Monday August 27 and 28, 6:00- 9:00 pm. 

(Auditioners need only come to one audition)

Rehearsals will begin in early September.  Performances will be from

November 2 - December 3, 2023, Thursdays-Saturdays at 7:00 pm, Sundays at 2:00 pm. 

There is the possibility of one week extension.

Director, Harry Wong III,  is looking to cast 6 actors for the following roles:

Alice Petty..............................................Commissioner, Female, mid fifties

Joseph “Doc” Kamaka...........................Commissioner,  Male, late sixties

Minoru “Bullet” Yamasato......................Commissioner,  Male, 80s

Jennifer Nishida..........................................Deputy Attorney General, Female, late 20s

Jonathon Teves.......................................Commission Executive Officer, Male, late 20s

Stephanie Balacang................................Stenographer, Female, 25

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Auditions will consist of movement exercises and 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

 You can read the script by Clicking Here

Call the Kumu Kahua Theatre office 536-4222 or email officemanager@kumukahua.org  if you need more information.

Anthony Michael Oliver is the author of twenty-one plays, two of which have won the University of Hawaii Drama Department/Kumu Kahua Theatre playwriting contest's Hawai'i Prize. Originally from the Bronx, he wound up aboard a Pearl Harbor submarine in 1965, courtesy of the Vietnam War. On the G.I. Bill, he earned a BA in History and a Master of Library Studies at University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. It was while working for the State, and listening to tales from his wife and her family and neighbors, that Oliver felt he had learned enough to write Haoleland.

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.