The Work on February 12th 2024
Who will direct it better?
Join us for a hilarious good time with directors Hoku Gilbert and Michael "Donut" Donato, as they go head-to-head!
Back by popular demand, Kumu Kahua is excited to present The Work, featuring the premiere of a new script:
Why Don’t You Take a Haiku by "da Pidgin Guerilla" Lee A. Tonouchi.
Join our MC Jason Kanda, creator of The Work, at Kumu Kahua Theatre on Monday February 12th at 7pm for an evening of sometimes raucous, always entertaining fun!
Audiences are invited to a high-energy showdown between two emerging directors, Hoku Gilbert and Michael "Donut" Donato, showcasing their work back-to-back in a fun, creative, and competitive format.
Each director is allowed a limited amount of time to stage the same prepared—but unrehearsed—scene by a local writer, using the same actors. While the actors have a chance to memorize their lines, the directors will not know the identities of the cast or tech crew until the night of the show. The directors will each have just 15 minutes to direct the actors in the same scene while you, the audience, look on.Then they perform their piece and you be the judge of who did it better!
Tickets are FREE so sign up now before they are all gone!
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Why Don’t You Take a Haiku is written by Lee A. Tonouchi
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 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, Hawaiian Electric, Edric Sakamoto, Ron and Rachel Heller, Lenard and Charlotte Chow, Hawaiʻi Conservatory of Performing Arts at Windward Community College, and other foundations, businesses, and loyal patrons.