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Kailua Onstage Arts: The Show Will Go On... Stay Tuned!
I don't know about you, but I've had about all the Netflix I can stand for awhile. KOA is looking forward to presenting more thought-provoking and entertaining shows for you, but until we as a State get to a point where we can safely congregate indoors (in a manner that makes financial sense for a no-budget nonprofit theater), we will be holding off on announcing our 2020-21 season. It is gonna be a doozy though, so stay tuned!
Next Up: Gruesome Playground Injuries
Didja miss opening weekend? Once we get the all-clear to again host an audience in our theater space, we will continue the run of this amazing show!
2019 - 2020 Season Announced
The pandemic has pretty much put the kibosh on the remainder of this season. If we are able to get in another of our programmed shows this summer we will do so! Otherwise watch this space for our 2020-21 Season Details!
Gruesome Playground Injuries
Written by Rajiv Joseph, Directed by Kevin Keaveney
A Hawaii Premiere
The Cast
Doug: Berkley Spivey
Kayleen: Danielle Zalopany
About the Show
Not your typical love story: Doug and Kayleen meet at the nurse’s office in their elementary school; she’s got a painful stomach ache, and he’s all banged up from a running dive off the roof of the school. Over the next thirty years, these scar-crossed lovers meet again and again, brought together by injury, heartbreak, and their own self-destructive tendencies. With great compassion and humor, playwright Rajiv Joseph (Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo) crafts a compelling and unconventional love story about the intimacy between two people when they allow their defenses to drop and their wounds to show.
Reviews of Previous Productions of Gruesome Playground Injuries
"Irresistably odd and exciting" - NY Daily News
"Emotional heft and humor" - LA Times
"Wonderous strange" - Variety