Kennedy Theatre 2001-2002 Season

ON THE MAINSTAGE - SEASON SUBSCRIPTION EVENTS

Much Ado About Nothing

October 5, 6, 11, 12, 13 at 8pm
October 14* at 2pm

Two of Shakespeare's most endearing and spirited lovers are at the heart of this delightful comedy. Beatrice and Benedick tangle and skirmish endlessly in a mutually ferocious game of love until finally they give in to the inevitable. Contrasting them are another pair of lovers, the sweet and romantic Claudio and Hero. Both couples fall victim to deception, but with some faith and the help of the bumbling constable Dogberry, love and truth rise above all.

Press Release
Production Photos
Feature Article (Star Bulletin, 10/5/01)
Review (Star Bulletin (10/12/01)

Tickets on sale September 24:

$12 Regular
$ 9 Seniors, Military, UH Faculty/Staff
$ 7 Non-UHM Students
$ 4 UHM students with validated Fall 01 Photo ID

*Performance signed for the hearing impaired

Annual Dance Concert:
Bigger Than Life!

Choreography by UH Dance Faculty & Guest Artists
Performance by UHM dance students

One Weekend Only!

November 16 and 17 at 8pm
November 18 at 2pm

This year's Annual Dance Concert is a multi-media experience with multiple screens, live camera work, computer-animated characters and video projections. Dancers will interact with video images in this technological dance fest. The audience may even get into some of the action as well! Guest artist Ellen Bromberg from the University of Utah, known for her work with dance and media, will create a piece for UHM dancers.

Press Release
Production Photos

Tickets on sale November 5:

$12 Regular
$ 9 Seniors, Military, UH Faculty/Staff
$ 7 Non-UHM Students
$ 4 UHM students with validated Fall 01 Photo ID

Judge Bao and the Case of Qin Xianglian

A classic Beijing Opera as performed and taught by Shen Xiaomei, Lu Genzhang, Shen Fuqing and Li Zhenghua

Translated and Directed by Elizabeth Wichmann-Walczak

February 8, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16 at 8pm
February 17 at 2pm

In ancient China, a young man excels in the examinations for national office and wins the hand of the emperor's younger sister in marriage. But he has a secret: he's already married to the country woman Qin Xianglian, and they are the parents of a boy and a girl! When news of their existence threatens his new imperial position, he decides that the best solution to his problem would be a little murder. Will Judge Bao, China's most famous detective, be able to set things right?

Judge Bao and the Case of Qin Xianglian introduces Judge Bao, a stern but fair dispenser of justice and upholder of the common man, to Hawaii audiences in this popular Beijing opera. Master teachers from the Jiangsu Province Beijing Opera Company will be in residence for six months training UHM students in the skills needed to present this exciting Beijing opera in its English-language premiere!

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Press Release
Photos from past Beijing Opera Productions
Publicity Photos
Educational Guide to Jingju (Beijing/Peking Opera)

Production Photos (Gong Cast)
Production Photos (Zheng Cast)
Feature Article (Star Bulletin, 2/7/02)
Review (Star Bulletin, 2/15/02)

Tickets on sale January 28:

$15 Regular
$12 Seniors, Military, UH Faculty/Staff
$ 9 Non-UHM Students
$ 4 UHM students with validated Spring 02 PhotoID

Crimes of the Heart

By Beth Henley
Directed by Glenn Cannon

March 15, 16, 21, 22, 23 at 8pm
March 17 at 2pm

Set in a small Mississippi town, this winner of the Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards examines the plight of three sisters in their twenties who are betrayed by their passions. Playwright Beth Henley probes her characters to provide side-splitting laughs in the face of adversity but ultimately it is a story of how the young women escape the past and seize the future. Clive Barnes of the New York Post said "It has heart, wit and a passion that carries all before it. It would be a crime not to see this play."

Press Release
Production Photos
Review (Star Bulletin, 3/22/02)

Tickets on sale March 4:

$12 Regular
$ 9 Seniors, Military, UH Faculty/Staff
$ 7 Non-UHM Students
$ 4 UHM students with validated Spring 02 PhotoID

EcoCircus

Conceived and Directed by Peggy Hunt
Script by Karen Yamamoto Hackler

April 26, 27, May 4 at 7:30pm
May 5 at 2pm

Three children travel to a magical land where a circus is performed by animals who have one thing in common-they are all on the list of endangered species. Masks, stilts, and circus tricks help to create the illusion of giant whooping cranes, clown sharks, gymnastic monkeys, bicycle-riding fish, and gentle koalas, all led by a ringmaster condor. Through their interaction with the animals the children learn that everyone can make a difference in saving our planet and its vanishing inhabitants. This magical performance, presented in celebration of Earth Day, is geared for families with children ages four to fourteen.

Press Release
Production Photos
Feature Article (Star Bulletin, 4/26/02)

Tickets on sale April 15:

$10 Regular
$ 9 Seniors, Military, UH Faculty/Staff
$ 7 Non-UHM Students and Children
$ 4 UHM students with validated Spring 02 PhotoID

SPECIAL EVENTS ON KENNEDY THEATRE MAINSTAGE

Jim Gamble and his Puppets in Circus!

January 12 at 10am & 7pm
January 13 at 2pm

Calliope and circus band music provide a colorful musical backdrop for string and rod puppets performing circus feats on an open stage. Master puppeteer and perennial Hawaii favorite, Jim Gamble has toured Korea and Japan with this production and featured it at "Open House at Hollywood Bowl."

Press Release
Photos

Tickets on sale January 4:

$ 9 Regular
$ 8 Seniors, Military, UH Faculty/Staff
$ 7 Non-UHM Students and Children
$ 4 UHM students with validated Fall 01 or Spring 02 Photo ID

A Concert of Beijing Opera Highlights

One Night Only!

February 12 at 8pm

A concert of Beijing opera classics cosponsored by the Chinese Opera Association of Hawaii. A highlight of the program will be special performances by Lu Genzhang, Shen Fuqing and Li Zhenghua, members of the Jiangsu Province Beijing Opera Company, who will be in residence as guest artists training students for Judge Bao and the Case of Qin Xianglian. Joining them will be members of the association who have been studying the art of Beijing opera singing.

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Photos

Tickets on sale January 28:

$15 Regular
$12 Seniors, Military, UH Faculty/Staff
$ 9 Non-UHM Students
$ 4 UHM students with validated Spring 02 PhotoID

PRIMETIME IN THE EARLE ERNST LAB THEATRE

The Clown of God

Adapted by and Directed Mark Branner

September 7 & 8 at 7:30pm
September 8 & 9 at 2pm

Based on a centuries-old Italian legend an itinerant street juggler discovers his gift for juggling and joins a traveling troupe. At the end of his life, he presents his simple gift as an offering, resulting in a profound miracle. This engaging story features a professional juggler, lively characters, hilarious antics, and fun for the whole family.

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Tickets on sale September 4:

$9 Regular
$7 Students, Seniors, Military, UH Faculty/Staff, Children
$3 UHM Students with validated Fall 01 Photo ID

Master and Margarita

Written by Mikhail Bulgakov
Directed by Elmira Tereshchenko

November 28, 29 & 30, December 1 at 8pm
December 2 at 2pm

A mysterious professor, his anthropomorphic wise-cracking cat, and other colorful cronies come to Stalin's Moscow to wreak hilarious surreal havoc on the lives of bureaucrats, writers, and critics. Climaxing with a Satanic masked ball where a bored housewife named Margarita searches for her lover known as "Master," this play explores the artist's search for free expression in an oppressive society.

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Tickets on sale November 26:

$9 Regular
$7 Students, Seniors, Military, UH Faculty/Staff
$3 UHM Students with validated Fall 01 Photo ID

Cummins and Scoullar's

The Little Prince

Directed by Natalie Mihana McKinney
From the book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Play by Rich Cummins and John Scoullar
(Replacing, Uh Oh, Here Comes Christmas!)

December 14 & 15 at 7:30pm
December 15 & 16 at 2pm

The Little Prince may have returned to his tiny planet to tend to his Rose and look after his Sheep, but for a short enchanted time returns to us and comes alive on stage. Based on the well-known book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

Press Release
Photos

Tickets on sale December 10:

$9 Regular
$7 Students, Seniors, Military, UH Faculty/Staff, Children
$3 UHM Students with validated Fall 01 Photo ID

Winter Footholds

February 20, 21, 22, 23 at 8pm
February 24 at 2pm

An annual showcase of new works by students in the UHM Dance Program.

Tickets on sale February 19:

$9 Regular
$7 Students, Seniors, Military, UH Faculty/Staff
$3 UHM Students with validated Spring 02 PhotoID

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Spring Footholds

April 3, 4, 5, 6 at 8pm
April 7 at 2pm

The work of B.F.A. and M.F.A. degree candidates is featured in this year-end program of dance and choreography.

Tickets on sale April 1:

$9 Regular
$7 Students, Seniors, Military, UH Faculty/Staff
$3 UHM Students with validated Spring 01 PhotoID

Press Release
Photos

Post Show Raps!

Join us after the Friday evening performances of Primetime and Late Night performances in the Earle Ernst Lab Theatre for a free discussion. Meet the director, actors, dancers, and designers, ask questions, and share your thoughts about what you've just experienced!

All seating in the Earle Ernst Lab Theatre is general admission. Latecomers will not be admitted to the theatre once the performance has begun.

LATE NIGHT IN THE EARLE ERNST LAB THEATRE

Edmond

Written by David Mamet
Directed by Taurie Goddess

October 6, 12*, 13 at 11pm
October 7 at 8pm

David Mamet's Obie-award winning play follows the story of an every man drained emotionally and blinded by a morally bankrupt society. Our anti-hero is called to action by a fortune teller who seduces him with the idea that he is special and drawn by destiny. In a downward spiral of sex and violence he ultimately finds redemption.

Press Release
Photos

Review (Star Bulletin, 10/9/01)

Tickets on sale one hour before curtain:

$7 Regular
$6 Students, Seniors, Military, UH Faculty/Staff
$3 UHM Students with validated Fall 01 Photo ID

*post show raps

Karmic Slave: Trapped on the Wheel of Reincarnation

Written and Directed by Thomas Isao Morinaka

November 9, 10, 16, 17 at 11pm

Adolf Hitler. A pot of flowers. A Samurai's duel to death. What single thread unites these incarnations in time? Karmic Slave explores the different embodiments of a soul's trek to Nirvana and the forbidden obstacles that hold the soul back.

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Tickets on sale one hour before curtain:

$7 Regular
$6 Students, Seniors, Military, UH Faculty/Staff
$3 UHM Students with validated Fall 01 Photo ID

Late Night Theatre's Spring 2002 season

What Keeps Me Here

Featuring playwrights David Mamet, Matt Pelfrey, Jos Rivera, Sheri Wilner,
Rebecca Brown
Directed by Sammie Choy

March 16, 22*, 23 at 11pm
March 17 at 8pm (a Late Night matin-eve performance)

* Post-show Rap following performance

A collection of monologues and dialogues about the aftermath of the short, sharp shock that changes the world. One moment everything is moving pretty much as expected, and then the
next . . . Everything is askew, and "normal" will never be the same.

Press Release
Photos
Review (Star Bulletin, 03/23/02)

Tickets on sale one hour before curtain:

$7 Regular
$6 Students, Seniors, Military, UH Faculty/Staff
$3 UHM Students with validated Spring 02 PhotoID

The Yellow Wallpaper

April 27, May 3*, 4 at 10:30pm
April 28 at 8pm (a Late Night matin-eve performance)

* Post-show Rap following performance

A Victorian woman with post-partum depression is exiled from the world to cure her "nervous disorder." Alone in her room the yellow wallpapered nursery personifies her madness.

Press Release
Photos
Review (Star Bulletin, 5/3/02)

Tickets on sale one hour before curtain:

$7 Regular
$6 Students, Seniors, Military, UH Faculty/Staff
$3 UHM Students with validated Spring 02 PhotoID

Late Night Box Office Information:
Tickets for the Late Night Theatre productions go on sale at the door to the Earle Ernst Lab Theatre one hour prior to curtain only. All seating in the Earle Ernst Lab Theatre is general admission. Latecomers will not be admitted to the theatre once the performance has begun.

Post Show Raps!

Join us after the Friday evening performances of Primetime and Late Night performances in the Earle Ernst Lab Theatre for a free discussion. Meet the director, actors, dancers, and designers, ask questions, and share your thoughts about what you've just experienced!

Tickets for the Late Night Lab productions go on sale at the door to the Earle Ernst Lab Theatre one hour prior to curtain only. All seating in the Earle Ernst Lab Theatre is general admission. Latecomers will not be admitted to the theatre once the performance has begun.

SEASON TICKETS

The Kennedy Theatre Box Office regular hours are Monday through Friday 10am through 3pm. For additional information, disability access or to charge by phone, the Box Office can be reached at 956-7655 (v/t).

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