Dead of Night, by Ed Sakamoto (Honolulu, HI)
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Dead of Night, by Ed Sakamoto
Kumu Kahua
Pre-statehood Honolulu, 1956: despite recently unionizing, Alex and his three best friends desperately struggle to provide for their families. Joined by a mainlander, the four local men decide to violently pressure their company’s boss to meet the union’s demands. When money is always the bottom line, can idealism and friendship ever win? Celebrated and ground-breaking, Edward Sakamoto’s Dead of Night is a suspenseful thriller about economic reality and the death of idealism.
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Kumu Kahua Theatre
To provide theatrical opportunities for the expression of local community lifestyles, whether contemporary or historical To stage locally written plays set in Hawai‘i or dealing with some aspect of the Hawaiian experience of residents To provide training and theatrical experiences for local playwrights, directors, performers and other theatrical artists To develop an increasingly large audience sensitive to plays and theatre pieces dealing specifically and truthfully with local subject matter
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