Old Pueblo Playwrights Presents The Last Aloha, a Hawaiian Quartet ... 'This is not a drill!'

 

From: Carol Somer <cbs@cbscomm.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 5:49 PM
Subject: NEWS: Old Pueblo Playwrights Presents The Last Aloha, a Hawaiian Quartet ... 'This is not a drill!'

 

Old Pueblo Playwrights Presents The Last Aloha, a Hawaiian Quartet

Old Pueblo Playwrights will present The Last Aloha/A Hawaiian Quartet Sunday, April 28, 2019.

"'The Last Aloha' features staged-reading performances of four original, unproduced plays," says OPP President John Vornholt. "Our members wrote these works in response to last year's false Hawaiian missile crisis. We have been meeting weekly for 30 years to read and critique new plays then select the best for presentation."

"Actors perform script in hand," explains Vornholt, a playwright, New York Times best-selling novelist, and co-producer of "Tales of Tucson" on KXCI-FM. "Audiences give playwrights direct and candid feedback at talkbacks designed to help plays move to full production."

'This is not a drill'

Tensions with North Korea were escalating in early 2018 and President Trump had been calling Kim Jong-un "Rocket Man" for months. Hawaiian residents received an incoming ballistic missile threat alert at 8:07 am, Jan. 13, advising them to seek immediate shelter: "This is not a drill." No civil defense warning sirens sounded but the University of Hawaii directed students to fallout shelters they found locked. Resorts directed tourists to a mountain bunker. Motorists drove 100 mph desperately trying to reach loved ones. A second message said the first was false 38 terror-stricken minutes later. It was only a HEMA drill miscommunication.

WHAT	Old Pueblo Playwrights presents The Last Aloha—A Hawaiian Quartet
WHEN	Sunday, April 28, 2019 @2 pm Mel Hector's One Hot Mess David Youngerman's Wedding Vows . . . @5:30 pm John Cafiero's World Enough and Time Gretchen Wirges' 38 to Life
WHERE	Unscrewed Theater, 4500 E Speedway Blvd., #39, Tucson, Arizona
TIX	Admission is $7/performance; $10/festival pass. Pay at the door with cash or check; no reserved seats. Credentialed media admitted free.
PARKING	Free parking available; handicapped accessible.
TALKBACK	We encourage everyone, no matter their training or experience, to participate in post-play talkbacks.
FYI	Old Pueblo Playwrights is a Tucson nonprofit. We aim to inspire Arizona authors of any age, race, religion, gender, ethnicity, or political persuasion, to create new dramatic works. Professional and aspiring writers of works for stage, film, radio, or TV, gather every Monday at 7 pm at the Temple of Music and Art to critique readings of members' original unproduced work. Meetings are open to the public; membership is $36/year; no one is turned away for inability to pay. We are grateful to the Arizona Commission on the Arts, the Tucson Pima Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts for their continued support of OPP and the arts in general.
CONTACT	OPP/John Vornholt: 520-548-3484 or johnvorn@aol.com OPP/CBS Communications/Carol Somer: 858-204-7424 or cbs@cbscomm.net

 

 

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