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Kumu Kahua Theatre shows plays
about life in Hawai'i
by
Vanessa Katz, A&E editor
| Kumu Kahua will open its 33rd season
with Folks You Meet In Longs. For the fifth season, it will premiere
a new work by Lee Cataluna, playwright, screenwriter, actor,
and newspaper columnist. |
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In a series of sometimes comic, sometimes somber monologues
set inside a Hawai‘i Longs Drug Store, Cataluna continues
her theatrical exploration of the human condition with an emphasis
on local color. Customers and employees alike take turns onstage
discussing everything from product purchases to boyfriends
and girlfriends, abusive spouses and mortal enemies.
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Some two-dozen characters, including Verna (“Waipahu’s
answer to Martha Stewart”), Rhaondalei Alvarado, Rogelio “D.J.
Stankmaster” Cabingabang, Crazy Aunt Cookie, Officer
Wolverton Dahaunaele, and Uncle Choochie Nawai, tend inadvertently
to reveal their own personalities while discussing the character
flaws of others, all against the backdrop of Hawai‘i’s
preferred shopping destination.
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As character Cherly Moana Marie Sakato says, “This is
my whole life. This is the rest of my life. Zippys, Foodland,
Longs.”
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| Showtimes are Thursday, Friday and Saturday 8 p.m.:
August 28, 29, 30; September 4, 5, 6, 11, 13, 18, 19, 20, 25,
26, 27 and Sunday 2 p.m.: August 31; September 7, 14, 21, 28,
2003. Kumu Kahua Theatre is at 46 Merchant Street, 536-4441 or
visit www.kumukahua.com. |
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