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Lee Tonouchi

LEE TONOUCHI

  
Nationality:    USA
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Lee Tonouchi's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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below is a list of Lee Tonouchi's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Gone Feeshing         Living Pidgin         Three Year Swim Club

Gone Feeshing

Synopsis:
Pidgin Guerilla Tonouchi, author of the short story collection Da Word, brings his "Mastah-Of-Comic-Disastah" style of literary comedy to the stage with the story of two brothers, Wayne and Grayson, who get together for the first time in several years to go fishing. the lives of Grayson, a schoolteacher, and Wayne, host of a popular fishing-and-cooking television show, have been determined partially by their differing relationships with their late father. When Grayson informs his older brother that he is to be married, the pair embark on a surrealistic journey that takes them through their childhood, teenaged and young adult years and back to the present-helping them to confront their past, deal with their father, and resolve their conflicts to reach a mutual understanding. By having the brothers repeatedly "swept away" by the ocean into turning points of their youth, Tonouchi combines pidgin-based comic dialogue with authentically developed character
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1st Produced:
Kumu Kahua    2004

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Living Pidgin

Synopsis:
Living Pidgin showcases Da Pidgin Guerrilla Lee A. Tonouchi's talents as a comic writer for the stage in this thematic assemblage of short plays and monologues. "How Fo Be Local in 5 Easy Steps" features a flirtatious, egotistical documentary filmmaker whose actors have a reality script of their own. "7 Deadly Local Sins" reveals the humorous character flaws of Hawai`i's Local society, as told by an aloha shirt-wearing, downtown businessman walking down Fort Street Mall. "Significant Moments in da Life of Oriental Faddah and Son" is a comic, yet heartfelt monologue about the strained relationship between a son and his Oriental Faddah. "Dey Say if You Talk Pidgin You No Can" collects advice students have received over the years on how speaking Pidgin will limit them in life. "Hawaiian Hero for Hire" introduces the world to Hawaiian Man and his superhero sidekick Haole Boy, as they struggle to find relevance for Hawaiian culture in today's fast-paced, cash-money world. "Pijin Wawrz" takes place in Future Hawaii, where Pidgin is outlawed and only the Pidgin Rebels can take on the impossible mission of rescuing the rumored lost Pidgin archives.
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1st Produced:
Kumu Kahua    2006

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Three Year Swim Club

Synopsis:
Based on a true story. In the 1930s on the island of Maui, Soichi Sakamoto trains the young men to swim using the plantation ditches. His aim is Olympic glory

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1st Produced:
David Henry Hwang Theater, Los Angeles    09 Feb 2012

Organisations:
East West Players

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Genre:
Drama

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