KUMU KAHUA THEATRE PRESENTS A GUERRILLA STYLE PLAYWRITING CLASS PERFORMANCE WITH LEE A. TONOUCHI

No Boddah Me, Boddah You? on September 17

WHAT: Showcasing scripts created and workshopped in Lee Tonouchi’s Guerrilla Style Playwrighting class, Kumu Kahua Theatre invites the community to No Boddah Me, Boddah You? on September 17. No Boddah Me, Boddah You? will provide 10 talented local playwrights with an opportunity to hear scenes from their scripts come to life. Come and be a part of the play development process! Admission to the performance is free, with no tickets necessary.

No Boddah Me, Boddah You? will include an opening act of Tonouchi’s GoTryPlayWrite winner, Popo and da Popo, together with the following class scripts:

• I No Like Talk, by Maurz Izon
• Momo Chan, by Dance Aoki
• Too Big, da Heart, by Gail Kuroda
• Wahi Malu Kai, by Julia M. Gilman
• Tentacles, by LynleyShimat Lys
• Sleeping Lessons, by Mark Dornin
• Terrance the Haole: Informed by Real Events, by Sean-Joseph Choo
• F-Boy with Feelings, by Adrian Khactu
• Everybody's Gotta Go Sometime (A Musical Comedy about Death), by Patrice Scott
• Kitchen God, by Wil Kahele

Lee’s Guerrilla Style Playwrighting Class was the first course in Kumu Kahua’s new program called STAGES—Supporting Theatre Arts Guidance and Education Series. All STAGES classes are offered for free, and include innovative learning opportunities for actors, directors, and playwrights. The series is designed for artists of multiple levels of experience and training. Kumu Kahua also offers opportunities for emerging writers to have their scripts read by industry pros through such avenues as its monthly playwriting contest called GoTryPlayWrite, and more.

WHEN: Saturday, September 17, 2022, at 2:00 p.m.

WHERE: Kumu Kahua Theatre is located at 46 Merchant Street in downtown Honolulu.
For more information, visit www.KumuKahua.org or call (808) 536-4441.

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Kumu Kahua productions are supported in part by the NME Fund of the Hawaiʻi Community Foundation, the Island Insurance Foundation, The American Rescue Plan of 2021, The State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, through appropriations from the Legislature of the State of Hawaiʻi, The AAPI Community Fund, The Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Hawaiian Electric Company, Alexander & Baldwin, The John R Halligan Charitable Fund, Spectrum/Charter Communications, ABC Stores, the Gloria Kosasa Gainsley Fund, Hawaiʻi Public Radio, The Kim Coco Fund for Justice of the Iwamoto Family Foundation, Vacations Hawaiʻi, Edric Sakamoto, Ron and Rachel Heller, Lenard and Charlotte Chow, and other foundations, businesses, and loyal patrons.