{"id":53416,"date":"2015-05-20T00:01:44","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T10:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/?p=53416"},"modified":"2015-05-19T14:39:08","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T00:39:08","slug":"pulse-of-the-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/pulse-of-the-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Pulse of the Community"},"content":{"rendered":"

Art lifts a mirror to society, and perhaps nowhere more conspicuously than through the medium of the One-Minute Play Festival. Nearly 10 years ago, New York City was the breaking grounds for the first 1MPF, a festival created as an artistic challenge to get the community talking about pertinent local topics. It has since grown exponentially, and plays annually in 24 cities, and has featured 1,000-plus playwrights and more than 8,000 one minute plays.<\/p>\n

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A flood of actors perform during a previous One-Minute Play Festival. Photo courtesy of One-Minute Play Festival<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cAnd all with one singular mission,\u201d says producing artistic director and founder Dominic D\u2019Andrea. \u201cTo look at who we are, where we are and where we might be going in relationship to specific communities, through a series of performed moments.\u201d <\/p>\n

The festival has teamed up with Honolulu Theatre for Youth and Kumu Kahua Theatre for its inaugural Hawaii kickoff, but what exactly is a one-minute play? It\u2019s literally a mini all-out play (not readings or monologues). String a bunch of them together as a whole \u2014 all written, directed and acted by local artists and employing local themes \u2014 and they represent the social climate of the community. <\/p>\n

\u201cSome of the themes and ideas that have bubbled up here,\u201d says D\u2019Andrea, are \u201cHawaiian history and legends, violence, economic disparity, schools, testing, development of natural resources, politics, and haole and native tensions. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never been to Hawaii, and know very little about the culture, so this was an opportunity for us to learn and engage along with the community, which is part of our mission \u2014 to give voices to communities, populations and cities who have a unique perspective.\u201d <\/p>\n

Writers were given a prompt to consider the world around them and moments that can only happen here and now. Fifty plays resulted from that prompt. Format-wise, four chairs sit on the stage and 30 actors, guided by seven directors, will produce the 50 plays using those chairs as their set. Sometimes only two actors will appear in a segment, while at other times the entire group of actors may be involved, with the goal of expressing a conglomeration of themes and ideas. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like 50 pulses of storytelling, 50 heartbeats that say something about the community as it is, through the eyes of the artist,\u201d notes D\u2019Andrea. \u201cWhen a one-minute play is good, it says something about the wider world that is larger than its tiny frame.\u201d <\/p>\n

Playwrights include Lee Cataluna, Alvin Chan, Terri Madden, Jan McGrath, Ryan Oishi, Joseph and Susan Stanton, and Mark Tjarks, among many others, along with direction by Annie Cusick Wood, Reiko Ho, Taurie Kinoshita, Lurana O\u2019Malley, Jasmin Please, Junior Tesoro and Harry Wong. <\/p>\n

Funds raised support youth and local playwright-specific programming at Honolulu Theatre for Youth and playwright residencies at Kumu Kahua Theatre. <\/p>\n

D\u2019Andrea was a full-time theatre director in New York before the success of 1MPF began taking him across the country. In the spirit of Walt Whitman, you might say he\u2019s been struck by \u201chearing America acting,\u201d and in that vein getting a feel for the fascinating diversity of the communities that stretch across our country, from New York to Hawaii. <\/p>\n

\u201cIn theatre, success is really hard and comes in unexpected places,\u201d he says. \u201cThis one just sort of hit, and then exploded!\u201d<\/p>\n

The Ticket Stub<\/strong><\/p>\n

ONE-MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL<\/strong><\/p>\n

When:<\/strong> May 23 & 25<\/p>\n

Where:<\/strong> Tenney Theatre<\/p>\n

Cost:<\/strong> $10-$20<\/p>\n

More Info:<\/strong> 839-9885, ext. 720; htyweb.org<\/p>\n

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Also Showing: ‘Rosie’s’ Returns<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fresh off the success of Fiddler on the Roof, director Joyce Maltby\u2019s final musical production at HPU theater, she\u2019s returning to her roots with a musical at Temple Emanu-El (May 24; 595- 7521, shaloha.com). Maltby recalls that her first show after being hired at HPU full time in \u201893 was a musical she co-wrote with husband Norm Boroughs, Rosie\u2019s Plac<\/em>e. <\/p>\n

\u201cShortly after we were married \u2014 he had never done theatre, but Norm decided he wanted to write a musical,\u201d recalls Maltby. \u201cHe had a vague idea that it would take place in a honky-tonk in West Texas.\u201d <\/p>\n

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Dr. Kalani Brady, Ethan Okura, Shari Lynn, Jim Tharp, Becky Maltby and Mickey Graue in a 2005 production of \u2018Aloha Rosie\u2019s\u2019 \u2014 all will appear in the current incarnation as well. PHOTO FROM TERRY OLIVAL<\/p><\/div>\n

Maltby had never written a play and Boroughs isn\u2019t a musician, but she went ahead and wrote the narrative and he created the lyrics and music. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe would hum a few notes and I play by ear, so I\u2019d pick them out on a piano,\u201d she laughs.<\/p>\n

The first installment of Rosie\u2019s<\/em> was such a hit that the duo followed up with A Night At Rosie\u2019s<\/em> in \u201897 and Aloha Rosie\u2019s<\/em> in 2005. The current offering is A Rosie Reunion<\/em>, featuring songs from the original trilogy, centered around characters who frequent Rosie\u2019s Bar and Grill. <\/p>\n

\u201cPeople have been saying for years, \u2018We\u2019d love to see another Rosie,\u2019 so we got Shari Lynn and Jim Tharp and a lot of people who have been in the shows before,\u201d says Maltby. <\/p>\n

Performers reprising roles from the original trilogy also include Kalani Brady, Becky Maltby, Ethan Okura, Allan Okubo, Blossom Lam Hoffman, Melinda Maltby and Mickey Graue. Don Pomes and Larry Bialock join the cast for the first time. <\/p>\n

Glenn Cannon Foundation, named for the late actor-director (who appeared in the original trilogy), is producing the musical, with 100 percent of ticket sales going to repair Temple Emanu-El\u2019s Torah scrolls, including one given to the Jewish community by King Kalakaua and another from Czechoslovakia that survived the Holocaust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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