#IAMBADATTHIS
A WORLD PREMIERE COMEDY BY SUSAN SOON HE STANTON
MAY 26 – JUNE 26, 2016
Emily is a young woman completely connected to the grid, but unplugged from life in this real life comedy about the now.
ABOUT
“WHEN YOU BROKE UP WITH ME VIA TEXT MESSAGE, I WAS CROSSING THE STREET AND GOT HIT BY A CAR. NOT LIKE, TERRIBLY SO, BUT YOU KNOW, IT HAPPENED.”
Returning home after trying to make it in New York, Emily tries to re-start her life in Hawai‘i. Connected to the world through every electronic luxury, her un-plugged fantasy life bars her from a reality that might offer her a deeper sense of relationship and humanity.
Despite her daily communication with her parents, when she comes face-to-face with them, she realizes that she doesn’t really know more than the façade she’s created in her mind. After receiving one of the best educations available to an American woman, she invests her time in a wide but shallow pool of endeavor… accomplishing nothing.
Written in a unique style reflective of our current trends of social behavior, this play could very well define a generation.
PERFORMANCE DATES
Thursdays / Fridays / Saturdays at 8 p.m. HST
May 26, 27, 28 & June 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24, 25, 2016
Sundays at 2 p.m. HST
May 29 & June 5, 12, 19, *26, 2016
*American Sign Language Interpretation upon request
JOKER
BY YILONG LIU
AUGUST 27 - OCTOBER 4, 2015
Set around the fight for marriage equality in Hawaiʻi, Joe’s normal life unravels as a promise kept is threatened by a visit of a man from his past.
ABOUT
“WHAT A MANIPULATIVE CREATURE YOU STILL ARE, JOKER.” “YOU CAN’T SIT OUT THIS FIGHT ANYMORE, FRIEND. WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT, CHANGE IS COMING.”
Joe is unable to let go of a lover who has passed away, which negatively affects his current relationships. He begins to harbor resentment and becomes a man who causes pain not only to himself, but to all those close to him.
Love, secrets and betrayal abound in this realistic look into lives touched by fear of exposing one man’s love for another.
PERFORMANCE DATES
Thursdays / Fridays / Saturdays at 7 p.m. HST
August 27, 28, 29 & September 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, October 1, 2, 3, 2015
Sundays at 2 p.m. HST
August 30 & September 6, 13, 20, October 4*, 2015
(please note, there are no performances of Joker on September 24-27)
*American Sign Language Interpretation upon request
MY BOY HE PLAY BALL
A WORLD PREMIERE BY TAMMY HAILIʻOPUA BAKER
NOVEMBER 5 – DECEMBER 6, 2015
Family bonds are strained when a local high school football star is forced to make a decision about his mainland school scholarship.
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“PROVE TO ME HOW BAD YOU WANT THIS. YOU GOTTA BE HUNGRY TO PLAY.”
Boy Kahalewai is living the dream: a Division I football scholarship at a mainland college, a chance to play pro, and a loving family back home. But as he struggles with intense pressure from his father and awakens to his Hawaiian roots, Boy starts to wonder whose dream he’s been living all along.
Tammy Haili‘ōpua Baker, the pioneering author of Lā‘ieikawai and Kamapua‘a, returns to Kumu Kahua after more than 15 years with a funny, deeply-rooted story of fathers, sons, and modern Hawaiian identity.
PERFORMANCE DATES
Thursdays / Fridays / Saturdays at 7 p.m. HST
November 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21, 27, 28 & December 3, 4, 5, 2015
Sundays at 2 p.m. HST
November 8, 15, 22, 29 & December *6, 2015
(No show Thursday November 26 –Thanksgiving)
*American Sign Language Interpretation upon request
NOT ONE BATU
A WORLD PREMIERE BY HANNAH II-EPSTEIN
JANUARY 21 – FEBRUARY 21, 2016
An intimate look at a family's struggle with the ice epidemic in Hawai‘i.
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“IF YOU LIKE SURVIVE DIS BUSINESS, NO ACT WIT ME. DERE’S WORSE GUYS OUT DERE DAT WOULD KILL YOU FO’ DIS.”
Meet Honey Girl: a former meth user, now an expert drug dealer. At a Haleʻiwa park bench one morning, Honey Girl meets up with customers and friends, rival dealers and her addict mother, all linked together by the meth they buy or sell, use or reject.
Sometimes humorous but ultimately harrowing, Chicago-based playwright Hannah Ii-Epstein witnesses 90 minutes in one woman’s struggle to stay clean in world turned upside-down by meth.
This play contains strong language and drug use.
PERFORMANCE DATES
Thursdays / Fridays / Saturdays at 7 p.m. HST
January 21, 22, 23, 28, 29, 30 & February 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20, 2016
Sundays at 2 p.m. HST
February 7, 14, *21, 201
(No show Sunday, February 1 – Super Bowl)
*American Sign Language Interpretation upon request
PELICANS
A WORLD PREMIERE BY ERIC YOKOMORI
MARCH 24 – APRIL 24, 2016
Yokomori returns to Kumu Kahua with a darky humorous drama about disaffected kids.
ABOUT
“YO, DAWGS. RED ALERT, YO. WE'S BE ENTERING A EXISTENTIAL CROSSROADS.”
What is more important--our words or our actions? This often shocking absurdist parable follows three modern-day urban wanna-be soldiers to their ultimate defeat.
Told in the bold and affronting style of Eric Yokomori, this story of the millennial challenge will appeal to those theatre-lovers who appreciate the landscape of KKT… and enthrall those who are looking for a reason to love the theatre.
This play contains strong language and violence.
PERFORMANCE DATES
Thursdays / Fridays / Saturdays at 7 p.m. HST
March 24, 25, 26, 31 & April 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23, 2016
Sundays at 2 p.m. HST
April 3, 10, 17, *24, 2016
(No show Sunday March 27 – Easter)
*American Sign Language Interpretation upon request
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