Kumu Kahua Theatre 34rd Season presents 6 plays ABOUT life IN THESE ISLANDS
This season Kumu Kahua presents six world premiere's by Hawai`i writers. With this outstanding season, our commitment to producing plays about life in Hawai`i, plays by Hawaii's playwrights, plays for Hawaii's people continues.
Kumu Kahua's 100-seat playhouse puts you at the heart of the drama. With well over 100 plays to our credit, our reputation attracts some of Hawaii's most talented actors, directors, playwrights, designers and other theater artists and technicians. To get information on becoming a Season Subscriber call 536-4222.
Territorial Plays: "Cane Fire" by Kathryn S. Bond; "Reunion" by Lisa Toishigawa Inouye; "In the Alley" by Edward Sakamoto. Three short plays originally produced in the 30s, 40s and 60s take Kumu audiences back for a look at plantation workers, World War II veterans, and the disaffected local youth of early statehood days in Hawai'i. The show opens in September 2004
Half Dozen Long Stem by Lee Cataluna. Kumu Kahua premieres another new work by playwright, screenwriter, actor and newspaper columnist Lee Cataluna, who now cultivates her distinctive brand of local humor in new soil--a Honolulu flower and lei shop. The show opens in November 2004
Christmas Talk Story 2004 by a range of local writers. Fun for the whole family and filled with Christmas memories, original songs and holiday standards, Christmas Talk Story will take you on a "small-kid-time" journey through Christmas time in Hawai'i. A co-production with Honolulu Theatre for Youth. The show opens in November 2004 at Tenny Theatre
David Carradine Not Chinese by Darrell H.Y. Lum. Playwright Lum, who has a talent for dealing with serious issues in a lighthearted style, is at his comic best in this tale of convoluted racial stereotypes, local attitudes and pun-ridden dialogue, culminating in a hilarious evening at the Wat-Chu Society annual banquet. This play was commissioned by Kumu Kahua. The show opens in January 2005
Eddie Would Go and Queen of Makaha (Rell Sunn) by Brian Hiroshi Wake. These two one-act plays bring the lives of two of Hawai'i's most famous surfers onto the stage. Queen of Makaha dramatizes a time in the life of Rell Sunn when she was in Texas receiving chemotherapy for cancer. Eddie Would Go, first produced by Honolulu Theatre for Youth in its 1997-98 season, features four young surfers who recount key episodes in the life of Eddie Aikau in an interactive stage show which includes the audience playing the ocean. Another co-production with Honolulu Theatre for Youth. The show opens in February 2005
The Ventriloquist by Mark D. Tjarks. This first play by Mark D. Tjarks presents a volatile and highly theatrical cocktail of music, tape-recorded encounters, and tart home-truths from an endearing but ill-adjusted couple. The show opens in May 2005
Kumu Kahua Theatre is supported in part by the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts through appropriations from Legislature of the State of Hawai'i (and by the National Endowment for the Arts); the Mayor's Office of Culture and Arts, Jeremy Harris, Mayor; The Hawai'i Community Foundation; and Foundations, Businesses and Patrons.
