{"id":134441,"date":"2021-01-26T15:01:59","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T01:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=134441"},"modified":"2021-01-28T10:21:51","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T20:21:51","slug":"theatre-productions-festival-invitations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/01\/26\/theatre-productions-festival-invitations\/","title":{"rendered":"2 糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> theatre productions receive prominent festival invitations"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 3<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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Keola Simpson in I’m Lot Lane (a solo effort)<\/em> (Photo courtesy: Christine Lamborn)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The COVID-19 pandemic created a silver lining for two University of Hawaiʻi<\/span> theatre productions temporarily halted from in-person performances. The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival<\/a> (KCACTF<\/abbr>) Region 8 is normally held at different sites on the West Coast, making it difficult and expensive for 糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> productions to appear. However, this year\u2019s online festival has allowed the productions to perform virtually.<\/p>\n

I’m Lot Lane (a solo effort)<\/em> from 糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M\u0101noa Theatre and Dance<\/a> and Oriental Faddah and Son<\/em> from the Windward Community College Theatre Program<\/a> are among six productions invited to the national showcase, February 10–13. KCACTF<\/abbr> Region 8 encompasses college and university theatre productions from Arizona, Central and Southern California, Guam, Hawaiʻi<\/span>, Southern Nevada and Utah. For more details and to register for the festival, visit the KCACTF<\/abbr> Region 8 website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’m Lot Lane (a solo effort)<\/em><\/h2>\n

I’m Lot Lane (a solo effort)<\/a><\/em> made its debut on the virtual stage in December 2020. It is inspired by historical accounts of the last remaining royalist insurgent in Hawaiʻi<\/span>. Lot Lane turned himself into government forces by walking in and announcing “I\u2019m Lot Lane” during the Uprising of 1895. It is a brash production that pushes against the norms of what theatre has been used for in Hawaiʻi<\/span>. The production has a strong language warning.<\/p>\n

“When you take into account that a festival like this, which would normally be very difficult for the University of Hawaiʻi<\/span> to participate in, the pandemic has just completely leveled the playing field, allowing for us to go up against the big schools from that particular region,” MFA<\/abbr> candidate and project creator Keola Simpson<\/strong> said. “I think we\u2019re even better because of our commitment to the online platform.”<\/p>\n

Simpson is from Oʻahu<\/span>, attended college in Los Angeles, and has lived and worked in New York City for the last 10 years. He has attended many festivals, including the KCACTF<\/abbr> Region 8, and has seen the quality of 糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> theatre productions increase over the last few years.<\/p>\n

“This is a big opportunity for our department and the university, and hopefully we can go and show the Western U.S. that we know how to do this too,” Simpson said.<\/p>\n

Oriental Faddah and Son<\/em><\/h2>\n
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Brandon Hagio and Dylan Leming in Oriental Faddah and Son<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The student cast of Oriental Faddah and Son<\/a><\/em> waited for nearly a year before finally being able to showcase its production. Oriental Faddah and Son<\/em> was scheduled to be performed at Windward CC<\/abbr>\u2019s Palik\u016b Theatre<\/a> in March 2020, but performances were abruptly canceled due to the pandemic.<\/p>\n

“These remarkable student actors worked so hard—day and night, for weeks—only to have their show canceled on opening night,” said Taurie Kinoshita<\/strong>, play director and Windward CC<\/abbr> instructor. “Getting to finally showcase this is a dream come true.”<\/p>\n

The production by Lee A. Tonouchi, also known as “Da Pidgin Guerrilla,” spotlights the relationship between a father and his son as part of a local Hawaiʻi<\/span> Okinawan family. It is based on Tonouchi\u2019s award-winning poetry book Significant Moments in da Life of Oriental Faddah and Son<\/em> (Bess Press), and investigates what it means to be Okinawan in Hawaiʻi<\/span>, illustrating the values of the Uchin\u0101nchu (Okinawan immigrants and their descendants in Hawaiʻi<\/span>).<\/p>\n

Kinoshita said many of the talent are first-time or beginning actors, and they were dedicated, hard working and remained committed to excellence\u2014especially in the accuracy they managed in the line division of the original poems\u2014sharing single lines, words or phrases with precision.<\/p>\n

Kinoshita also credited the Windward CC<\/abbr> technology-media department with effectively transitioning the play to a virtual platform, and Okinawan cultural experts Norman Kaneshiro<\/strong>, Eric Wada<\/strong> and student dramaturg Jeremy Keuma<\/strong> with music, language and cultural advising.<\/p>\n

These productions are examples of 糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s goal of Excellence in Research: Advancing the Research and Creative Work Enterprise (PDF<\/abbr><\/span>), one of four goals identified in the 2015–25 Strategic Plan (PDF<\/abbr><\/span>), updated in December 2020.<\/p>\n

By Marc Arakaki<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m Lot Lane (a solo effort)<\/em> and Oriental Faddah and Son<\/em> will be showcased online at KCACTF<\/abbr> Region 8, February 10–13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[131,334,130,9,66],"class_list":["post-134441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-kennedy-theatre","tag-paliku-theatre","tag-theatre","tag-uh-manoa","tag-windward-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134441"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134604,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134441\/revisions\/134604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}