Wailuku, HI - An adopted version of the original play, Family Laundry will play at two Maui locations and in Kona. Family Laundry was written by the late local Playwright Tremaine Tamayose and staff members of the Kamehameha Schools Safe & Drug-Free Schools Program. It was originally produced by Kamehameha Schools in 1993 and was performed by a talented group of professionals, all of Hawaiian ancestry, for an audience of over 10,000 people statewide. It is a musical, a comedy, and a drama about a local Hawaiian family and their struggle to deal with a family member’s alcoholism. The title of the play, “Family Laundry” comes for the idea of “never airing the family’s dirty laundry” or letting the family problems become public. The play shows however, that sharing the family’s secrets can be an act of courage particularly when it comes to alcohol and drug problems.
The play is directed by Cyndi Mayo Davis who originally played the role of Lehua. She will be portraying this role once again along side a stellar cast of local talent and professionals, which includes three staff members from the Neighborhood Place of Wailuku. This showing of this play is being supported through a grant from the County of Maui, is sponsored by The Neighborhood Place of Wailuku and its partnering agencies and is FREE to the public.