Kauai Community Players' 2015 Season

KAUAI COMMUNITY PLAYERS 2015 SEASON

Opening the season will be LAST FIVE YEARS, a two-character musical by Jason Robert Brown, directed for KCP by Jennifer Downs, opening January 9, 2015 for a three-week run. LAST FIVE YEARS is a contemporary song-cycle musical that ingeniously chronicles the five-year life of a marriage, from meeting to break-up... or from break-up to meeting, depending on how you look at it. The show is an intensely personal look at the relationship between a writer and an actress told from both points of view - his going forwards and hers going backwards, meeting in the middle at their wedding.

David Penhallow Scott’s MATILDA’S WALTZ, to be directed by the author, will run February 20th through March 8th 2015. MATILDA’S WALTZ takes place in 1944 on a sugar plantation overlooking Pearl Harbor and tells the story of the impact of World War II on the rigid social norms that once ruled Hawaii, with the empowered sugar workers on the verge of changing the political structure as well.

Playing April 2 through April 19, 2015 will be PRODIGAL FATHER by Richard E. Peck, to be directed by the author, a well-known playwright in the Philadelphia theater scene. PRODIGAL FATHER is a light-hearted comedy about a sailor/novelist father who locates his son whom he hasn’t seen in years. The father is a free spirit who has never been forgiven by his son for his shortcomings as a father. The son, a straight-laced attorney, is trying very hard to be everything his father wasn’t. The play treats in hilarious fashion the inability of some men to express their love.

Ending the season, will be Edward Albee’s masterpiece, WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF, to be directed for KCP by Cass Foster, a retired theater professor with extensive directorial experience who has made his home on Kauai. Performances will run May 8-24, 2015. The winner of the 1963 Tony Award for Best Play, the Broadway production was a shattering and memorable experience and proclaimed the author as a major American playwright.