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Week of Friday, February 8, 2019 | Vol. 6, No. 6

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‘MAKE THE MOST OF IT’

Play explores terminal cancer

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NORTH SHORE DANCE PARTY 6:30 p.m. potluck, 7 p.m. instruction, 7:30 to 10 p.m. dancing, Church of the Pacific, Princeville Swing, Latin, ballroom music. All levels welcome, no partner necessary.

JAZZ SINGER NIGHT WITH MATT LEMMLER 7 p.m. St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church, Lihue Tickets $20 in advance, $25 at the door. Info: www.kisskauai.org or 800-838-3006 SATURDAY SWEETS AND SWEET THINGS SALE 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Lihue United Church Parish Hall, 4340 Nawiliwili Rd. Crafts, bake sale, games, snacks and silent auction. Info: 245-6253

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FENG SHUI BENEFIT WORKSHOP 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Happiness Planting Center, Lihue, the old Immaculate Conception School site Participants will gain an understanding of the energetic influences to be experienced during 2019, the Year of the Pig. Proceeds benefit Lawai International Center. Info: dorahong888@gmail. com or 651-8893 SIERRA CLUB HIKE Wai Koa Loop Trail, North Shore Easy, 3.5-mile hike through a Kilauea forest and largest mahogany plantation in North America.

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‘The Shadow Box’ unites Jo Grande as director and Arnold Meister as assistant director BILL BULEY TGIFR!DAY

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ere is a short description of “The Shadow Box,” the latest Kauai Community Players production that opens Feb. 15: “In this compelling dramatic triptych, three terminal cancer patients dwell in separate cottages on a hospital’s grounds. The three are attended and visited by family and close friends: Agnes and her mother Felicity, estranged further by the latter’s dementia; Brian and Beverly, whose marital complications are exacerbated by Brian’s new lover, Mark; and Joe and Maggie, unready for the strain of Joe’s impending death and its effect on their teenage son.”

Now, that doesn’t sound much like light fare. Doesn’t

sound like there ••• THE PLAY’S THE THING will be laughs.

Doesn’t sound “The Shadow Box” runs Feb. 15 to March 3 at the Puhi Theatrical Warelike there will be house. Shows are 7 p.m. Thursday, cause for hope. Friday and Saturday, and 4 p.m.

Doesn’t sound Sunday. Tickets are $15 general like there would admission, $13 for seniors, $10 for students. Doors open at 6 and 3. Info: be thanks kauaicommunityplayers.org involved here.

But before Each of the characters, this play is over, there will be some laughter. There will be despite facing the end of hope. There will be thanks. their lives, rejects despair and recognizes what counts: Living well.

“You’re here, this is all you get right now,” said Director Jo Grande. “No matter what your problems are, make the most of it in the here and now. Live it, live it. Be happy to be alive.”

Her assistant director, Arnold Meister, said “The Shadow Box” is about living it to the fullest before it’s gone. He rejects the notion Bill Buley / TGIFR!DAY offered by some that the Jo Grande is director of “The Shadow Box,” while Arnold second we’re born, we start Meister is assistant director. The Kauai Community Players production opens Feb. 15. ABOVE: Sabrina Patrov is Felicity’s dying. shy, quiet daughter, in “The Shadow Box.” ON THE COVER: Grande and Meister.

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“You’re living until you die,” he said.

Grande, seated next to Meister as they chatted over lunch about the Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning play written

by Michael Cristofer, nodded in agreement.

“The most precious thing you can buy on this Earth is time,” she said. “If you’re wasting it, it’s your fault.”

This is more than a play for these two friends. Each has had run-ins with cancer.

Meister is a cancer survivor. Grande has lost family members and friends to cancer. Her daughter is a cancer survivor.

As well, this is a reunion for them.

Grande and her husband, Wil Welch, played the lead roles of Joe and Maggie in a 1984 production of “The Shadow Box” on Kauai directed by, you guessed it, Arnold Meister.

So when it came around 25 years later for Grande to direct the play, she called Meister with some questions.

He did better than answer them.

“He said, ‘I’ll be your assistant director,’ and I went ‘Yippee,’” Grande said, laughing. “It’s been a collaboration more than assistant director.

He’s been a godsend. Little tweaks here and there, that’s where he’s been a godsend to me.”

“He’s used to being the boss, so am I,” Grande added.

“Somehow, it’s working.”

She said it’s not quite what she expected.

“This guy, something is wrong with him. He’s being

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way too nice. I’m used to him directing me, saying, ‘I’m the director and you’re not.’

Those are his famous words.”

“I”m very lucky,” she added.

Meister said that 1984 play was well-received, and he expects the same for this newest version.

“It’s a touching play,” he said. “The writing is excellent and the cast we have is phenomenal.”

Grande is confident the play will be popular.

“You will walk out of there crying and laughing at the same time,” she said.

The play deals with what are referred to as the five stages of death and dying: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.

“Its’a tumultuous kind of thing,” Meister said. “As you watch the play, you see those people going through it. It’s very touching.”

The characters gradually come to terms with their fate, even finding humor in it and, finally, being OK with where they’re headed.

One of the characters, in a discussion about their time on Earth, says, “I’m a little more concerned with it than you know. I don’t have much more left.”

Grande said it’s long been on her mind to direct “The Shadow Box.” “This is an important play to do again,” she said. “I really think for me this play is like a memento to all the people I’ve lost.”

Cole Diamond plays Steven, son of Maggie and Joe; Taj Gutierrez is Mark, young lover of Brian; Husband and wife, Maggie and Joe, are played by Rebecca Hanson and Patrick O’Connor; Sabrina Patrov is Felicity’s shy, quiet daughter; Claudia Cowden is Beverly, former

wife of Brian; Jim Warrack is Brian; Cher Ellwood is the old farm woman Felicity; Jeff Demma is the interviewer.

Demma is never seen, only heard, as he interviews the patients about their lives.

“It’s a different twist on a play, which I like,” Grande said.

It’s a mix of veterans and rookies. Patrov has never been on the stage before.

“When you see her, you will be blown away,” Meister said.

He credited Grande with coaching her early on during rehearsals.

“It was like a transformation,” Meister said. “‘She just became that character.”

“I’m really proud of her,” Grande said.

Meister said being assistant director — new for him — has been a pleasant change.

“I’m enjoying it,” he said.

“I’m learning so much sitting by Jo because she has this spontaneity in directing, which I think is so wonderful. She can look at a scene that’s already working and spot what’s not working.”

Meister said he hopes people realize “The Shadow Box” is not just about people dying — but people discovering more about living, about finding joy in the moments.

The play ends with those facing their own mortality, overcoming anger and demanding to know, “why me?” They become thankful, appreciative, for what they’ve had, what they’re doing, and what they still have left to do.

They go from saying “no” to dying to “yes.”

“It’s about how important

it is to make the most of what you’ve got. Don’t put it off. Do it,” Grande said.

She hopes the audience listens closely in the final scenes of “The Shadow Box.”

“Right now is all you’ve got. Make the most of it,” she said.

“You may be dying, but you’re living,” Meister added.

“I may be dying, but I’m

alive now.”

••• Bill Buley, editor-in-chief, can be reached at 245-0457 or bbuley@ thegardenisland.com.-

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OIWI TAKES TO THE EKK STAGE MONDAY Grassroots heritage Hawaiian music program continues at Aqua Kauai Beach Resort

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It’s just about a year since Mahi began gigging with Kawaiola Yaris, son of deceased kumu hula Doric Yaris. t’s the fourth of 10 Monday “Kawaiola can play anything,” nights in the heritage Hawaiian says Mahi, and he includes in that music program, E Kanikapila Kakou, now in its 36th season. This statement not only musical styles, but also numerous instruments.

Monday’s guests at EKK are local boys, known as the group Oiwi, or “Hands down, he is one of the best talents I have met in my life.” “native sons.”

Bronson Aiwohi, the youngest John Kepa Mahi, born on Hawaii member of Oiwi, plays rhythm Island, the son of a Hilo musician guitar and has clean vocals. and a mother also musically in“He has the true new-age style clined, took to the ukulele at age 8, after his father died. A move to the of singing contemporary Hawaiian Westside of Kauai landed him next songs, like John Kruse, the Opihi door to a family from Niihau, where Pickers — and he plays Makaha’s all sorts of musicians, including the songs,” Mahi said.

Oiwi’s playlist will follow the Sons of Niihau, gathered to play theme of EKK for this season — Hawaiian music and sing.

Mahi pursued music and began “Our Music is Our Moolelo.” Adds Mahi, “We’ll play a lot of songs that to play in local venues. Sometime in high school, his leo kiekie, or fal- mean a lot to us, and share stories setto, broke out. Be warned: Mahi’s behind the songs, where they come from, who wrote them.” singing is chicken-skin time.

He says they’ll also play songs This man, who wanted to be a they’ve written. Their first CD will Hawaiian-language teacher, has be available later this month. instead brought the language EKK gigs are 6 to 9 p.m. in the wrapped in beautiful Hawaian music to thousands of people over Jasmine Ballroom of the Aqua Kauai Beach Resort, near Hanamaulu. the years, from venues large to TGIFR!DAY

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PLAYWRIGHTS AND WANNABES WANTED EVA LONGORIA WORKS IN FRONT OF, the festival plays will take place three weekends starting Aug. 8.

TGIFR!DAY The purpose for the 10-Minute Shorts Play Festival is to auai’s Women in Theatre provide a unique collaboration is looking for “playwrights among new and experienced playwrights and directors with and wanna-be playan opportunity to express, wrights.” explore and experiment in the “Time to get your works on evolution of new plays while stage in front of supportive participants develop their skills, and enthusiastic audiences,” and give local actors stage time said Nell Foster, WIT’s artistic to develop their craft. director.

Ten plays will be selected The organization is seeking from the first 100 received. submissions for its seventh biennial, “10-Minute Shorts Play There is a $10 fee per each subFestival.” Plays with a maximum mission but only one play per of five characters and minimal playwright will be selected.

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All information on the criteria for participants to submit their unpublished and unproduced plays can be found at www.WomenInTheatre.org.

Selected plays will be staged at Women in Theatre’s WIT’s End theater in Kukui Grove Center.

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‘THE DESCENDANTS’ IS A GREAT READ, TOO BILL BULEY TGIFR!DAY

challenges and decisions that the father, Matt King, has to make that could very well affect the future of Kauai.

In case you missed the movie, any of us have seen the movie, “The Descendants.” the story unfolds like this: The mom Some of the scenes were is in a coma after a boating accident. The two daughters each have shot here on Kauai, including at their own issues they’re dealing the Lihue Airport, Hanalei Bay and with. The father and husband Matt Tahiti Nui. I have mentioned a few times sitting in the George Clooney King (played by Clooney in the seat at the Nui. A scene where the movie) is coming to terms with the loss of his wife, their strained marcharacters drive to a spectacular spot that overlooks property that in riage, and what to do with a huge piece of property on Kauai that’s the movie is the site for a planned been in the family for decades. development was shot at Kipu Some family members want to Ranch. sell it and let it be developed. Matt The movie wasn’t a big hit, but it did earn a reported $177 million King, who is in charge of it and has the final say, has doubts. Meantime, worldwide, though, perhaps he’s trying to connect with his surprisingly, less than half of that daughters. earned in the U.S. It received solid That’s a short summary. reviews.

Hemmings is a fine writer. A nice, The film was based on the relaxing style. Her story flows along novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings. It’s a terrific read as it follows the story smoothly, easy to follow. You’re not ever left trying to figure out what of the King family, their personal

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life. Like this one: “Where’s Sid?” I ask. It feels strange, asking about him.

“He’s smoking a cigarette,” Alex says.

“Tell her you’re sorry,” Scottie says.

“For what?” Alex says.

“For being drunk. For not being a boy. Mom wanted boys. That’s what Grandma told me. We’re girls.”

“Sorry for being bad,” Alex says.

“For wasting Dad’s money on coke and liquor. Money you could have used for face lotion. I’m sorry.”

“Alex,” I say.

“Dad lets me have Diet Coke,” Scottie says.

“Sorry for everything,” Alex says, and then she looks up at me and just happened. She’s a descriptive says, “Sorry, Mom, that Dad wasn’t writer without overdoing it. One good enough for you.” of her strengths is dialogue. She But it’s not just dialogue where writes the way people actually talk.

Sometimes, when you read a book Hemmings nails it. Her narratives, like this one, are spot on. and quotes, you think, no one ac“A chunk of Honolulu floats into tually talks that way. But Hemmings view, and I can see lights coursing captures the conversational tones up the hills, then a blank dark space just as they would be said in real

and another long row of house lights. It’s always strange to be reminded of other lives still moving along. For every light I see, there’s a person or a family, or someone like myself, enduring something. I feel the plane dropping, and then a wisp of cloud obstructs the view and makes our speed tangible.”

If you liked the movie, you’ll like the book. There are a few profanities in the book, but Hemmings does not go overboard with foul language. The King family speaks pretty much how you would expect a real family to speak in such a situation.

This book covers a lot of territory in a short time. It will not leave you wondering when something is going to happen. It reflects on life, love and the beauty of living in a paradise like Hawaii.

••• Bill Buley, editor-in-chief, can be reached at 245-0457 or bbuley@thegardenisland.com.

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ring out and smiles morph into concern and fear.

“Everybody Knows” is not Farhadi’s first movie set here are few more outside his native Iran, but seductive things it’s in Spanish, a language to watch onscreen he doesn’t speak. His chief than a big, wine-soaked, interpreters here are Spanish multi-generational family cinema royalty: Penelope wedding like the one that happens early in “Everybody Cruz and Javier Bardem.

The combination of this Knows,” (three stars out of high-wattage real-life coufour) Asghar Farhadi’s new ple, the sun-dappled scenthriller set in a picturesque ery and the page-turning Spanish village.

The wedding cake is bare- plot have led some to worry ly cut before anguished cries that Farhadi’s latest effort

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might be a bit less incisive or penetrating than his usual fare, which includes the Oscar-winning “The Salesman” and “A Separation.”

We begin with the arrival of Laura (Cruz) in her home village for her sister’s wedding, her teenage daughter and young son in tow.

Laura arrives to a family bustling with preparations for the big day. It doesn’t take long for her to run into the jovial Paco (Bardem), a local vineyard owner who

seems a de facto leader of the town. It also doesn’t take long for us to learn that long ago, Laura and Paco were lovers. Their names are even etched in the wall of the church bell tower. A local boy shows this to Irene (Carla Campra), Laura’s daughter: “Everybody knows,” he says.

That tantalizing title will come to mind again and again, changing meaning as we go along. Sure, maybe everybody knows of Paco and Laura’s romance, but

what else do they know? Are there deeper, darker secrets to emerge?

In any case, the joyful wedding soon morphs into a rainy, endless night.

Laura goes to check on her sleeping daughter and finds she’s vanished. On a bed, someone has left newspaper clippings about the kidnapping of an 8-year-old girl years ago.

This is enough to send Laura into a panic. Then comes the text from her

daughter’s captors: Don’t contact the police, or we’ll kill her.

Whodunit? Suspicion falls on local youths, or vineyard workers.

Meanwhile, time is running out. A huge ransom is demanded.

Of course, more secrets will emerge, including a whopper that you may see coming but maybe not, so numerous (and occasionally frustrating) are the red herrings along the way.

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undreds of people flocked to the Kauai Marriott Resort & Beach Club for the annual hoike presented

by Halau Hula O Leilani with kumu hula Leilani Rivera Low and Darryl Low. The gathering featured entertainment by Low’s longtime friends The Sons of Makaha performing their unique Hawaiian music styling with performances by the halau’s dancers.

The happening showcased the students’ learning of hula, Tahitian, and other Polynesian dances from the year.

A unique, Kauai-made, locally produced sale of items in the lobby area filled in the time with talk-story and shopping while customers waited for the doors to open.

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