Week of Friday, March 22, 2019 | Vol. 7, No. 12
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HIGHWAY FEES PUBLIC MEETING 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wilcox Elementary School The state Department of Transportation seeks feedback on the concept of a road-usage charge to fund upkeep of roadways and bridges. SATURDAY
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5K RUN AND WALK TUESDAY 7:30 a.m. Hokuala Resort Benefit for Samaritan’s Purse. Register: www. AARP SMART DRIVING CLASS eventbrite.com 1 p.m. Kapaa Neighborhood Center $15 for AARP members, $20 for all others. HIGHWAY FEES PUBLIC MEETING Learn the effects of aging on driving skills 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Koloa and how to deal with them. Registration Neighborhood Center required. Info: Jim Jung, 822-0448 The state Department of TransportaPUBLIC LIBRARIES CLOSED tion seeks feedback on the concept of a road-usage charge to fund upkeep of All day roadways and bridges. The state and county Prince Kuhio Day holiday means schools, state and county offices SIERRA CLUB HIKE and public libraries are closed. Eastside coastal hike, Kapaa to Anahola ARMED FORCES MUSICAL SALUTE Moderate 6.5-mile trek. Info: Julio Magalhaes, 650-906-2594 5 to 9 p.m., Koloa Landing, Poipu A dinner show featuring live music includZUMBA FUNDRAISER FOR ing Broadway hits to benefit the Kauai SALVADOR GABRIEL Veterans Museum. Info: 822-1110, www. 1 to 2:30 p.m., Kauai Veterans Center salute.show Zumba fundraiser for Salvador Gabriel’s WEDNESDAY kidney transplant. $10 donation plus bake sale. Tickets can be purchased at the door. WEST KAUAI COMMUNITY PLAN Info: Flor, 482-9499 MEETING 5 to 7 p.m., Hanapepe Public Library KOKEE WORK DAY The county is updating the West Kauai Kokee State Park Community Plan, and this meeting focuses In honor of late Hui O Laka Executive Director Marsha Erickson. Limited overnight on economic development. Dinner provided. bunk space available. Info: 335-9975, ext. 1 or 2
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WEST KAUAI COMMUNITY PLAN MEETING 5 to 7 p.m., Kekaha Neighborhood Center The county is updating the West Kauai Community Plan, and this meeting focuses on economic development. Dinner provided. SIERRA CLUB HIKE Nounou Mountain (Sleeping Giant), Wailua, west trail from Lokelani Road Strenuous three miles. Info: Lee Gately, 661-373-4834
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Ross Martineau directs and acts in KCP’s production of ‘The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)’ BILL BULEY TGIFR!DAY
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he “Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)” covers 37 plays in 94 minutes. And how does a cast of three do that? Ross Martineau, T.J. Hamilton and Bailey Hutton smile and laugh at that question, because they know the answer. It is most definitely not easy. It’s fast, furious and frantic at times. Chaotic comes to mind. Most important, it’s darn funny, with nearly 50 costume changes between the three of them and reaching for props in tight, sweaty quarters. Good thing these guys trust each other. “We have very little room behind the set here, and we’re making those moves with two feet of space as one person is throwing on wigs and a dress and another person is grabbing a cut-off head,” Hamilton said after rehearsal Tuesday night. “You have to be able to know exactly where that person is going to be backstage and on the front of the stage.” Kauai Community Players’ production of “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged),” written by Adam Long and directed by Martineau, opens Friday, March 29, and runs through Sunday, April 14, at the Puhi Theatrical Warehouse. The three-man show parodies the plays of William Shakespeare, with each play being performed in comically shortened or merged form by only three actors.
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The cast of “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)” is, from left, Bailey Hutton, Ross Martineau and T.J. Hamilton. ON THE COVER: From left are Martineau, Hamilton and Hutton.
When people think Shakespeare, they think serious drama, tragedy, Elizabethan-era language. Hutton, who admits he’s not a Shakespeare scholar, says forget all that. “This is not your typical Shakespeare,” he said. “It is unconventional Shakespeare, total comedy,” Hutton said. “Whatever your preconceived notions of what Shakespeare might be, get rid of them and come see the show.” “I’ve been telling my friends it’s the complete farce of William Shakespeare,” Hamilton added. In this KCP version, they do a rap song to “Othello.” The histories become a foot-
ball game. There’s talking backwards and walking backwards. “It’s very unconventional,” Martineau said. “I like to say it’s either The Marx Brothers or The Three Stooges doing Shakespeare.” Some plays are mentioned. Others, like “Romeo and Juliet” and “Hamlet,” are given more stage time. But rest assured, after 94 minutes, you’ll know more about William Shakespeare leaving than coming. Martineau acted in “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)” 12 years ago on Kauai, and a second time a year later when it SEE SHAKESPEARE, PAGE 4
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n Monday night, March 25, one of Hawaii’s premiere musical groups, The Makaha Sons, will close the 36th season of E Kanikapila Kakou, Kauai’s heritage Hawaiian music program, beginning at 6 p.m. at the Aqua Kauai Beach Resort near Hanamaulu. Comprised of Jerome Koko on 12-string guitar, Mark Yim on six-string guitar and Kimo Artis on bass, what you won’t see just looking at the names is the huge history behind this band with the sought-after sound. The Makaha Sons have garnered more Na Hoku Hanohano awards than you can stuff into 10 beach bags, along with their 22 CDs. Also, they were the first band to win a Hoku for “Best DVD,” receive the “Lifetime Achievement Award” and were inducted into the Hawaiian Music Hall of Fame. A suggested donation is
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was brought back due to popular demand. He was delighted to have the chance to direct and act in it a decade later. “It’s in my blood,” he said. Between them, the three men play about 50 characters. They are in constant motion — other than when they are dying or wounded and prone on stage, depending on the role. It’s running, turning, twisting, falling and dashing backstage and then returning to the main stage in a different costume, all done in a big, big hurry. In one scene they might emerge holding a sword. The next, wearing a crown or a mask. And the next, a ghost might appear — or a toy Godzilla. They joke that it starts off at 30 mph and picks up speed as it goes, clocking 100 mph later. Even if a line is missed here or there, and it happens (sometimes by design, sometimes not), they count on each other to keep the momentum rolling. “The train leaves the station and there’s no turning back,” Martineau said. They describe it as 94 minutes of laughter, a hard-charging comedy with short clips and quips. “If you don’t like what’s going on, the channel changes in the next 30 seconds,” Hutton said. “None of the bits are that long. It’s just a matter of time until we get you to grin.” It’s physically demanding, so it helps that all three are in good shape. Still, such is the workload that Martineau has lost four pounds since rehearsals started in January “It’s very much like doing P90X every night of the week, while saying your lines,” Hamilton said. Each actor said this might be the toughest show they’ve done.
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auai Community Players production of “The Complete Works of Williams Shakespeare (Abridged),” written by Adam Long and directed by Ross Martineau, runs from Friday, March 29 to Sunday, April 14, at the Puhi Theatrical Warehouse. Shows are 7 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, and 4 p.m. Sundays. Tickets: www.kauaicommunityplayers.org — TGIFR!DAY
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T.J. Hamilton reprises a role from “Hamlet” in the upcoming production of “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged).”
Yet they are comfortable heading toward opening night that it will be a success because they have struck a Shakespearean bond. “The show definitely relies on chemistry,” added Martineau, who plays all the female roles. “I have been blessed, I like to say, to be the beauty among the
beasts,” he said. When asked why he got all the female roles, he laughed. “With a face like this?” Martineau said. Martineau, who also selected the costumes, found most of the props, and helped build the set, had this to say about directing
and acting: “Two words. ‘Never again,’” he said, laughing. But, seriously, he would. “For me, it is just a joy to do this show. It’s fun. It’s work. But as a comic actor, this is the pinnacle,” Martineau said. “I think this is really one of the funniest shows ever written.”
Hamilton said the most fun has been spending time with his co-stars. “From the get-go, no matter how hard the rehearsal is, we’re having a good time,” he said. Hutton has loved the challenges of trying different ways to elicit laughs. “The one way that does work, it’s like a victory to find it,” he said. Martineau said based that, on previous runs of the play, he knows it’s a success when someone who watched it says this: “I knew nothing about Shakespeare. I still know nothing about Shakespeare, but I loved the show and I’m coming to see it again. “ Martineau said there are three questions to ask of those who might see the show: “Do you love Shakespeare?” “Do you hate Shakespeare?” “Do you know nothing about Shakespeare?” “If you answer ‘yes’ to any of those questions, you will love our show,” he said with a grin. ••• Bill Buley, editor-in-chief, can be reached at 245-0457 or bbuley@thegardenisland.com.
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SUPER SWEET ACCOLADES
Kauai Chocolate and Coffee Festival wins ‘Best Cultural Event’ from HTLA
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Paige said. “Last year, we had the VIP dinner for the first time, and that was big.” The response to the acao and caffeine festival has been big. The brought home dinner itself was a small affair awards from the Hathat showcased top-quality waii Lodging & Tourism Aseats with chocolate or coffee sociation earlier this month, sprinkled throughout the with the award for Best dishes. Part dinner party, part Heritage and Cultural Event chef’s contest, it’s something going to the Kauai Chocolate the festival will most likely and Coffee Festival. showcase in years to come, Judith Paige, president Paige said. of the Hanapepe Economic Gearing up for the Oct. Alliance, which hosts the Jessica Else / TGIFR!DAY 18 and 19 festival, Paige said event, said it’s the simple Cacao pods are processed to make chocolate at several small operations throughout Kauai. the HLTA accolades are a combination of the two “We did the art and orchid welcome honor, but festival other festival hosted by Hanmega-favorites — chocolate in Hanapepe, which prides and coffee — that makes the itself on being “Kauai’s littlest apepe Economic Alliance, an festival for years, but the cof- attendance is bursting at the fee and chocolate is popular,” seams already — especially art and orchid festival. festival something special. big town” and boasts art The switch happened after An emphasis on artisan bars galleries, the historic swingcoordinator Amy Hammond, and brews also helps set it ing bridge and the island’s of Oahu’s Special Events Haapart. bookstore. waii, landed a grant to start It’s two days of tastings, “People love chocolate a few chocolate and coffee live music, and kids’ activities and coffee,” she said. “But festivals throughout Hawaii. they also love to hear about that puts on display chocoShe reached out and asked if late and coffee from Kauai, the process, they love small the economic alliance would but also from throughout batches and the specialty like to host one. Hawaii. roasts.” The first Chocolate and The Kauai Chocolate and The two-day festival is Coffee fest blew the art and Coffee Festival sprang into typically held on a Friday orchids out of the water. existence in 2016 out of anand Saturday in October
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EMERGING WRITERS EARN GRANTS ASSOCIATED PRESS
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iction writer Hernan Diaz and playwright Michael R. Jackson are among 10 winners of $50,000 grants for emerging artists. The Whiting Awards, established in 1985, have previously gone to Tony
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IN ‘US,’ JORDAN PEELE HOLDS A DARK MIRROR TO AMERICA JAKE COYLE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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ordan Peele has tightened his grip in “Us” (three stars out of four), a less satirical and more slaughterhouse horror parable than the writer-director’s astonishing debut, “Get Out,” that despite its deficiencies will leave all ••• who enter its shadowy MOVIE world convinced of REVIEW Peele’s growing command as a singular conjurer of American nightmares. It’s a movie moment to savor. When was the last time a filmmaker’s sophomore release was greeted with such anticipation? It’s as if Peele struck such a deep and rich vein in “Get Out” that no one can wait to see what else he’ll uncover. Peele has found a new passageway into American psychology, and we’re all waiting outside the mine for him to call out from the dark with his latest revelation. And in “Us,” Peele has produced a terrifying artifact: a sinister ballet of doppelgangers and inversions that makes flesh the unseen underbelly lurking beneath every sunny American dream and behind every contented nuclear family. It’s a scissor-sharp rebuke to anyone who’s ever held hands and sang “Kumbaya.” “Us” begins on images of one such moment of supposed unity: Hands Across America, that
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Lupita Nyong’o is dazed in a scene from “Us,” written, produced and directed by Jordan Peele.
wholesome ‘80s experiment in linking arms across the country. It’s seen on an old TV screen with VHS tapes of “Goonies” and “C.H.U.D.” leaning against it. Later, when the Wilson family takes a vacation near Santa Cruz, California, they look out of their window at night and see the ominous silhouettes of a hand-holding family just like themselves outside on the driveway. Their appearance is eerie to all: the mother Adelaide (Lupita Nyong’o), the father Gabe (Winston
Duke) and their two kids, Zora (Shahadi Wright Joseph) and Jason (Evan Alex). But it’s Adelaide who most immediately recognizes the danger. The Santa Cruz boardwalk is where she, as a young child, wandered into a carnival tent’s hall of mirrors to find herself face-to-face with her exact double. That’s the film’s opening prologue before shifting to present day, and the scene, classically spooky, is perfectly realized by Peele.
We settle in for what we know, as soon as the Wilsons make their vacation plans, will be Adelaide’s frightful reunion with her childhood mirror-image tormentor. It comes fast, like an assault. Soon after unpacking their bags and after a day at the beach with some friends (Elisabeth Moss and Tim Heidecker), the red-dressed doubles appear. The Wilsons’ doppelgangers are a kind of sadistic, scissor-wielding echo of each family member. As
“Us” bleeds into one ghastly scrape after another, we gradually grasp that they’re part of a larger uprising of an underclass who are each horribly tethered to a surface-world human. Adelaide’s double explains simply: “We’re Americans.” “Get Out” proved Peele a master of metaphor but “Us” works less on a purely symbolic level than on its own infinite-loop system of horror. Some questions get answered but others don’t. The doubles arrive with only slightly more reasoning than the crows did in Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds.” Nightmares don’t always need clarification. But I do think “Us” would work better if it gathered its suspense more steadily and more closely tethered its ideas to its characters. If the doppelgangers are stand-ins for an otherness that we fear in others but deny in ourselves, I’m not sure zombie-like maniacs were the most interesting way to go, or the most humanizing. And Peele’s script, delving so relentlessly into terror, doesn’t leave either side of the mirror room for much reflection. “It’s all just craziness,” someone says. Yet there’s an undeniable power of “Us” as a deeper, more primal vision of a two-tiered truth in American society that’s as unshakable as one’s shadow. Peele, working with cinematographer Mike Gioulakis (“It Follows,”‘’Glass”), creates fever-dream images with passionate precision.
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nahola was the first Hawaiian Homes program on Kauai created by Prince Jonah Kuhio in an effort to rehabilitate and put Hawaiians back onto the land to become successful homesteaders. The community, created with a “checkerboard of people,” including Hawaiian Homes homesteaders, gathered Saturday for a day-long ho‘olaule‘a to remember Kuhio, who was also born on Kauai and advanced to become known as “the People’s Prince” for his work benefiting the Hawaiian people. Ka Hale Pono, the lead
organizing agency for the celebration, honored the late Hosea Kaina Lovell, known as “The Prince of Anahola,” for having traits similar to those of Kuhio. Other Kuhio celebrations take place Friday at the Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort & Spa, with the protocol starting at 9 a.m. with its accompanying day of cultural demonstrations and entertainment. The Royal Order of Kamehameha, Chapter No. 3 Kaumuali‘i, hosts its annual protocol Saturday starting at 10 a.m. at Prince Kuhio Park, a site located close to Kuhio’s birthplace in Poipu.
Nalani Kaneakua, Kanaha Kaneakua-Keahi, Robley Lovell, Troy Keipper, Randi Keipper, Ella Keipper, Kalei Arinaga
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