During 2023, the world began to re-open in earnest, and most people returned to their pre-Covid face-to-face jobs and responsibilities. Live theatre was once again permitted, so the theatre practitioners among us returned to night-time rehearsals. To accommodate these changes, after the summer, the Keakalehua Board decided to reduce our weekly meetings to bi-monthly meetings, gathering on Zoom on the first and third Wednesday of each month.
1/4/23
Makaʻāinana (revised)
by Jeannie Barroga
Full length
26+m, 8+f, 10+h
1/11/23
Three Weird Mornings at the Library
by Rex McGregor
three 10 minute plays
3f, 1m
1/18/23
by Marion Lyman-Mersereau
2 hours
45+ characters
1/25/23
2 Reunion plays from GoTryPlayWrite:
I Wish You Were Here, by Gerardo Rodrigues (2f, 2m, 1 announcer VO)
Up and Down, by Stephanie Matsuba (2f, 2m, + tots & teens)
2/1/23
Messenger From Afar
by Stephen Most
3 Acts
1f, 4m + voices
2/8/23
The Isle is Full of Noises
by Sean-Joseph Choo
58 pages
1f, 3m + chorus
2/15/23
Mendokusai (revised)
by Eric Stack
3 Acts
5f, 3m
2/22/23
Masked Conflicts: 6 short plays from Go Try Play Write competition (10 minutes each):
Boy and Uncle: Mask, by Darrell H.Y. Lum (2m)
Daddy Issues, by Paul Donnelly (1f, 1m)
Musa, by Todd Sullivan & co-writer (2m, 1h)
You’re Being Paranoid, by Sean-Joseph Choo (2h)
Bad Ahi (Poke in Time), by Kemuel DeMoville (1f, 6h)
A New Kind of Sweep, by Jason Kanda (3f, 2m)
3/1/23
by Diane Aoki
2 Acts
6+f, 3+m
3/8/23
Someone Like Me
by Richard Gustin
40 min.
1f, 1m
3/15/23
by Dick Hershberger
2 Acts
3f, 3m, +
3/22/23
Thank Heaven for the Heathen
by Eaton Magoon
2 ½ hrs
6+m, 7+f
3/29/23
Two Short Plays:
The Suneaters of 2030, by Normie Salvador – a monologue (1m)
Wizard War, by Tony Pisculli – a 10 minute play (2m)
4/5/23
The Magic of Polly Amnesia
by Tony Pisculli
1+ hour
2f, 2h, 8 volunteers
4/12/23 Island Warrior (part 1)
by Jeannie Barroga
62 page screenplay
2f, 15m
4/19/23 Island Warrior (part 2)
by Jeannie Barroga
62 page screenplay
2f, 15m
4/26/23
Political Divide -- Short Plays from Go Try Play Write (10 min. each):
Abe vs. Lee, by Darrell H.Y. Lum (2m)
What the -?, by J. Jackson (1m, 1f)
The Pits of Despair (And Plaster Bones), by Steph Prizhitomsky (2f)
Walk In Her Shoes, by Sharon Blount (1f)
Only Angels Have Wings, by Lawrence DuKore (2m)
5/3/23
by Anthony Oliver
2 Acts
6m, 2f
5/10/23
by Marion Lyman-Mersereau
50 minute keiki play
5m, 5h
5/17/23
by Mark Irwin
2 Acts, opera
2f, 4m + chorus
5/23/23
by Nora Louse Syran
a Triptych
5/31/23
Dorms & Politics: 6 short scripts (10 minutes each)
Fresh Kills (not recorded), by Sarah Congress (1f, 1m)
Marsha & Marushka, by DJ Cahan (2f)
A Pair of Jacks, by Alan Zaremba (2m)
‘Elua, by Hoku Gilbert (2f)
Da Day Afta: Mahalo Huli Chicken, by Darrell H.Y. Lum (2m)
The Meet, by Paul Bowman (2m)
6/7/23
by Randal McEndree
3 ½ hrs.
7m, 3f
6/21/23
O Tusitala
by Sia Figiel
Full Length
1 performer, many characters
6/28/23
Higher! Higher!
by Tom Cooper
2 ½ hrs. +
5f, 9m, 2h
7/5/23
One Uddah Mid’summah
by Jackie Pualani Johnson
Full Length
7+f, 14+m
7/19/23
Think of a Garden
by John Kneubuhl
Full Length
8/2/23
Memory Beads
by Diane Aoki
Full length
8f, 7m?
8/16/23
Spring of ‘67
by Nick Higginbotham
Full length
5f, 5m
9/6/23
And This Is A Play (Act I only)
by Daniel Akiyama
1 of 2 Acts
3f, 3m
9/20/23
4 Short Halloween Scripts (10 minutes each):
Makemake ‘Ekolu, by Suzen Murakoshi (2f, 1m)
No More Wishes, by Rebecca Carlson (2f, 2m, 1h)
Trick or Treat?, by August Nigro (2f, 2m)
A Candy for Kimo, a monologue by Robin Blasberg (1m)
10/4/23
Traits
by Jeannie Barroga
Full length
10m, 8f
10/18/23
6 Go Try Play Write Thanksgiving Scripts (10 minutes each):
Birdjab, by Logan Silva (2m)
Don’t Flip Your Snood, by Rex McGregor (2 Turkeys [1m, 1f])
The Pardoned Turkey, by Elena Naskova (3f, 1m)
Happy Tanksgive ‘Em, by Tyler Miranda (3f, 3m)
Last Standish at Plymouth Rock, by Ronald Micci (6m, 1f, 1h)
Tofurkey, Lilikoi Wine, & Haupia Pie, by Ian Lactaoen (1f, 3m)
11/1/23
by Diane Aoki
2 Acts
1f, 6m
11/15/23
Santa Claus? by Sara Ward (2m, 1 voice)
Starlight, by Barrie Kealoha (4f)
Egungun, by Todd Sullivan and co-writer (3m)
12/6/23
Chikamatsu’s Forest
by Edward Sakamoto
Full Length
12/20/23
Santa Not Too Real, by Ian Lactaoen (2f)
Happy Same Old New Year, by Ian Lactaoen (6m)
Uncle Rudy, by Sara Ward (5m, 3f)