Plays Shared in the Hui During 2025

During 2025, our hui continued meeting on the first and third Wednesday of each month, to read new plays of all lengths. Playwrights from as far away as Aotearoa, Australia, Japan, and the Philippines joined us, along with playwrights from throughout Hawaiʻi and the continental United States. Works read this year included:

1/8/25	Poor Doug	Rex McGregor	Full Length	2-4m, 5-9f, 1h (14 char.)
1/22/25	Hanafuda with Grandma	Diane Aoki	Short 2-act	1f, 1m
2/5/25	On the Occasion of Hilo’s Next Tsunami	Randal McEndree	1 hour?	7f, 10m (can double-cast)
2/19/25	6 Anti-Woke Satires: Gun Shy Unmelting the Pot Painting Targets Paint the Rainbow Black Call Me They Pride Cometh & Cometh & Overcometh	John Wythe White Joyce Fontana Randy Otaka Normie Salvador William Manley Peter Grey	10 min. 10 min. 10 min. 10 min. 10 min. 10 min.	1m 3f 2m 8m 5f, 3m 3f, 3m
3/5/35	Wednesday’s Child	Sara Ward	Full Length	4+f, 8+m
3/18/25	Āwili: Between Worlds	Nick Higginbotham	Full Length
4/2/25	John and Emma	Marion Lyman-Mersereau	1 ½ hour	2+f, 15+m
4/16/25	Plights: Flight of the Crows Phony on a Twig Ambitious Cutlery Rabbit Warns Gannet Fruitful Ebook Meets Treebook Threatened Panda Fights Back	Rex McGregor	7 short comedies	2f, 1m 1f, 1 bud, 1 leaf 1f, 2m 1f, 1m 2f, 1m 2f, 2m 2f, 2m
5/7/25	Puakea’s Pieces: Follow the Moonlight The Last Dance The Girls with the ‘Ulu	Puakea Forester	1-Act Monologue 1-Act	1f, 3m 1f 7+f, 7+m, 2+h
5/21/25	Spam, Ken Doll, LeafBlower, 4 Short Plays: The Daring Escape of the Three Muscatels Adverbs of Frequency Presents How’d I Do?	A.J. Layague Rachael Carnes J. Jackson R.P. Singletary	10 min. 10 min. 10 min. 10 min.	1f, 1m 1f, 1m 2f, 1m 2h
6/4/25	McEndree “Postcard Conversations”: Al-Zeimah: The Forgetful Terrorist Baby Jesus in the Strip Mall The Awareness App The Taliban and the Toyota	Randal McEndree	5 min. 5 min. 5 min. 5 min.	2m 1h 2m 2m
6/18/25	Rhyme & Reason, 5 Short Plays: Match.Commoner One Second Chance at the Kaulele Café Blue Lotus Lost Boy and Uncle: Romeo and Juliet Psyche, From the Latin for Soul	Lori Miller Fox Normie Salvador AJ Layague Darrell H.Y. Lum Joyce Fontana	10 min. 10 min. 10 min. 10 min. 10 min.	3f, 2m 3f, 3m, 1h 2f 2m 2f
7/2/25	Kū Nei	Eric Stack	Full Length	2-3f, 4m
7/16/25	Kalikimaka	Justina Mattos	Full Length	2f, 3m
8/6/25	Expat	Jeannie Barroga	Full Length	2f, 3m
8/20/25	The Japanese Strike Conspiracy of 1909	James Parker	3 hours	16m, 6f
9/3/25	Shelter & Superpowers, Four Short Plays: Shelter in Place Change is Good I’m Not a Mindreader...Anymore Loss of Power	Ruth Ann Howden Linda Pallotta Kerstyn Au Erin Moughon	15 min. Monologue 10 min. 10 min.	1f, 3m, 8h 1f 3f, 2m 1f, 1m
9/17/25	Hale ‘Ōhiʻa	Kauʻi Kaina	2 Acts	3f, 2m
10/1/25	The Apocalyptic Pigeon Effect	Ian Lactaoen	10 min.	6+m, 5+f
10/1/25	The Splintered Shotgun	Ian Lactaoen	10 min.	1f, 3+m
10/1/25	A Charmless Man in the Blur	Ian Lactaoen	30 min.	1+f, 8+m
10/15/25	Lest We Forget	Adapted from Miyoshi Ikeda’s play by Daniel Akiyama	1 hour	4m + playwright
11/5/25	Being Honest	Brian Johnston	2 Acts (long)	2f, 3m
11/19/25	Apocalypse and Aloha	Leroy Olen	Full Length	4f, 3m
12/3/25	5 Short Holiday Plays: Elven Revolt Thanksgiving Surprise Let Me Shoyu Next Door Nativity Grounding Santa	James Parker Justina Mattos Justina Mattos Rex McGregor Rex McGregor	10 min. 15 min. 10 min. 10 min. 10 min.	4f, 3m 3f, 3m 2f 1f, 2m 1f, 1m
12/17/25	Prompt Deliveries (Excerpts): The Single K.App.A.Ch.I.N.O. Cat and Mouse Waiting in Ewa Bound Traffic on a Tuesday Afternoon I’ll Shoyu!!! AW, H(A.I.)LL NO! Bizarre Love Triangle	Randy Otaka	10 min. 10 min. 10 min. 10 min. 10 min. 8-10 min. 10 min.	3m 2f, 1h 2f, 2m 1f, 1m 3m 1f, 1m 2f, 1m