Kumu Kahua Theatre presents ‘Cane Fields Burning’

DOWNTOWN — Kumu Kahua Theatre presents Cane Fields Burning, winner of the Kumu Kahua/UH Manoa playwriting contest, beginning Thursday for a month-long run of shows ending on October 9. The show goes on Thursdays through Sundays.

Ghosts, demons, and dark memories haunt Hawai‘i’s plantation fields in the tale of a curse passed down through three generations.  An old man has died, and as his son and grandson sort through his belongings, the photograph of a beautiful woman exposes the violent secret buried in the old man’s past. Cane Fields Burning uses the elegant power of Japanese Noh theatre to tell the story of a family struggling to escape its tortured history. The play contains adult content.

Kumu Kahua Artistic Director, Harry Wong, directs the play, with Katherine Aumer as Assistant Director.  The cast includes acclaimed local actors Stu Hirayama, Shiro Kawai, Wil T.K. Kahele, Evelyn Leung, Justin Fragiao, Jaime Bradner, Elexis Draine, Lisa Ann Katagiri Bright and Danielle Zalopany.

For show dates and times and for ticket information, visit kumukahua.org.

Cane Fields Burning
Kumu Kahua Theatre
46 Merchant Street