Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 31, Number 9, 1 September 2014 — LEGEND OF KOʻOLAU [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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LEGEND OF KOʻOLAU

Sat, Oct 11, 7:50 p.m. The one-man national touring play Legend Of Ko'olau will premiere in Los Angeles with Maui High School graduate Moronai Kanekoa portraying real-life cowboy Ko'olau in this inspiring historic drama by about one man's fight against a 50-man militia intent on exiling him and his son to the leper colony at Kalaupapa. Written by Honolulu Star-Advertiser reporter Gary Kubota, the play was selected for creation by the National Performance Network of New Orleans. David Henry Hwang Theatre. $30. An encore performance in the islands is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. Nov. 23 at Maui Arts and Cultural Center, where it premiered in 2013. legendofkoolau.com. ■

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