{"id":147749,"date":"2021-09-10T11:51:22","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T21:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=147749"},"modified":"2021-09-10T12:26:44","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T22:26:44","slug":"banyan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/09\/10\/banyan\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Hilo\u2019s performance season kicks off with play focused on 9\/11 impacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_37246\"  width=\"620\" height=\"349\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FhaXjOjb0bk?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"BANYAN Trailer\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-size:85% !important;padding-top:6px;\">Film trailer of UH Hilo&#8217;s Banyan production.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s been two decades since the tragic events of 9\/11. To pay homage to one of the nation\u2019s darkest days, the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at Hilo <a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/depts\/performingarts\/\">Department of Performing Arts<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/artscenter.uhh.hawaii.edu\/\">Performing Arts Center<\/a> will debut its fall season with the production <a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/news\/view\/15246\"><em>Banyan<\/em><\/a>. The play, written by California-based writer Jeannie Barroga, takes place after the attacks and parodies the chaotic moment in history of falling buildings and intertwines symbolic Wizard of Oz icons.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are opening on 9\/11 because this year marks 20 years since that day, and the central character in the play is dealing with the trauma and fallout from that event,&rdquo; said <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> Hilo Associate Professor of Drama <strong>Justina Mattos<\/strong>, who directed the production.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_147756\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-147756\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/hilo-performing-arts-center-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"outside of a building\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-147756\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/hilo-performing-arts-center-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/hilo-performing-arts-center-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/hilo-performing-arts-center.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-147756\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Hilo Performing Arts Center (Photo credit: Kirsten Aoyagi)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Due to the pandemic, the performance was filmed over the summer, will premiere virtually on September 11 and run continuously through the 13th. A viewing link will be available here beginning on opening day.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I found out about the existence of this play through a Thursday evening playwrights\u2019 Zoom Hui that I created and have been leading since the start of COVID a year-and-a-half ago,&rdquo; said Mattos. &ldquo;We gather online each week to read works in development, and many of the works have appeared onstage or online after being workshopped with us.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The play\u2019s lead actress is <strong>Rhealiza Pira<\/strong>, a 2017 alumna of the <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Hilo performing arts and English departments. <a href=\"https:\/\/artscenter.uhh.hawaii.edu\/documents\/2021-22-events\/BANYAN.AboutTheCast.pdf\">Bios of the full cast can be found here<\/a> (<small><abbr title=\"portable document format\">PDF<\/abbr><\/small>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/chancellor\/stories\/2021\/09\/07\/banyan\/\">For more go to <em><abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Hilo Stories<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;By Susan Enright<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The season opens with a streaming production of <em>Banyan<\/em> which takes place after the attacks and parodies the chaotic moment in history of falling buildings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[736,220,14],"class_list":["post-147749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-performing-arts","tag-performing-arts-center","tag-uh-hilo","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147749"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147761,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147749\/revisions\/147761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}