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(L. to R.) Ryan Sutherlan, Jason Kanda, & Ginger Gohier. Photo by Firebird Photography

Kumu Kahua Theatre Announces The World Premiere Of Houselights & Prolonged Sunlight By Eric Yokomori

HONOLULU, HI: Kumu Kahua Theatre presents House Lights & Prolonged Sunlight by Eric Yokomori. The production will play at Kumu Kahua Theatre, 46 Merchant Street in downtown Honolulu, from January 14th through February 14th, 2010.

In a one-act play (House Lights) and six short plays (under one title, Prolonged Sunlight), playwright Yokomori explores the human condition via dramatic surrealism and theater of the absurd. Intense aberrant behavior is the norm as characters confront one another in strange situations. In one of the short plays, Joey tells Crystal that he possesses a magic rock into which he has placed all of his love, and no one can take it away from him. Crystal finds her own rock, and the battle begins. In another, an author attempts to convince a children's book publisher to buy his x-rated manuscript. In another, a bizarre cocaine deal goes bad. In House Lights, Saul Peacock, an actor whose credits are merely those of a perennial extra ("It's the hardest role to play, really. You never draw attention to yourself."), is invited to dinner at the dysfunctional Roget household and gives them all a lesson in the difference between illusion and reality.

*These plays contain strong language and adult situations.

Thursday, Friday & Saturday 8pm: January 14, 15, 16, 19, 21, 22, 23, 28, 29, 30; February 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 2010
Sundays 2 pm: January 17, 24, 31; February *14, 2010
(No show Sunday, February 7, because of the Superbowl)
*American Sign Language interpretation available upon request