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Bamboo Ridge Press celebrates the
launch of a new collection of plays by four Hawaiian playwrights:
HE
LEO HOU: A New Voice - Hawaiian Playwrights
Kamau
—
Alani Apio
Kupua
— Tammy Haili'opua Baker
Da
Mayah — Lee Cataluna
Ka
Wai Ola — Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl
introduction
& commentary by John H.Y. Wat & Meredith Desha
This special issue of Bamboo Ridge,
Journal of Hawai'i Literature and Arts, showcases the work
of four talented and prolific Hawaiian playwrights. From the introduction:
"The writing and production of plays by Hawaiian writers is
a rlatively recent development and Western-style drama is therefore
a new voice for Hawaiian artistic expression. Each of the four playwrights
chosen for this anthology has a significant body of produced work
seen by a wide range of audiences....[All four] are still active
in poroducing new and groundbreaking work and....are probably the
most notable and well-known memvers of the community of Hawaiian
playwrights...." - John H.Y.Wat, Editor, actor, director,
writer, educator
The
Bamboo Ridge Press launch of He Leo Hou, takes place on Wednesday,
November 12, with a reception at 7:00 pm and readings by the four
playwrights at 7:30 pm, in the Art Auditorium.
Tammy Hailiopua Baker, Lee Cataluna,
and Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl will also participate in the Fall Festival
of Writers discussion panels on Thursday,
November 13.
Early praise:
"These four plays have all been successfully
staged in Hawaii in the last ten years. They reflect the new assertiveness
in Hawaiian identity as well as disenchantment with conventional
"politics". He Leo Hou is
a powerhouse of entertainment and enlightenment." - W. Dennis
Carrol, Department of Theatre & Dance, University of Hawaii
at Manoa
"In all, Kamau is a moving and powerful
piece on the nature of personal and cultural compromise." -
Joe Rozmiarek, The Honolulu Advertiser
"Kupua....chases down illusions--illusions
surrounding the boundaries of form and culture." - Anne Keala
Kelly, Honolulu Weekly
"...Da Mayah is a joyous party of
a show that skewers our elected officials and their hypocrisy but,
most importantly, celebrates big-hearted people and their oftentimes
clumsy attempts to find their bliss." - David Choo, Honolulu
Weekly
"Issue aside, the play [Ka
Wai Ola] promotes taking a stand to support a personal belief--whatever
its source." - Joseph Rozmiarek, The Honolulu Advertiser
HE LEO HOU: A NEW VOICE -
Hawaiian Playwrights ISBN #0-910043-66-3, 6" x 9", 269
pages, paperback, $15.00
The publication of He Leo Hou was supported
in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the
State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.
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