'Five-0' actor, HTY produce internment activist's story

By Ben Wood

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Feb 08, 2013

~~HAWAII Five-0" regular Daniel Dae Kim has teamed with Honolulu Theatre for Youth to present and produce the off-Broadway show "Hold These Truths," a story of Japanese internment activist Gordon Hirabayashi, Feb. 21-March 2 at Tenney Theatre. The show is dedicated to the memory of U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye. Lisa Rothe will direct and Joel de la Fuente will star in Jeanne Sakata's one-man show as they did in the original Epic Theatre Ensemble New York production in October. "Hold These Truths" is set in Seattle during World War II, where Hirabayashi, a University of Washington student, agonized over government orders to forcibly remove and incarcerate all people of Japanese ancestry on the West Coast. In April, President Barack Obama awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, posthumously to Hirabayashi, who died last year at age 93. For tickets go to <a target="_blank" href="http://www.htyweb.org">www.htyweb.org</a> or call 839-9885.
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HAWAII Five-0" regular Daniel Dae Kim has teamed with Honolulu Theatre for Youth to present and produce the off-Broadway show "Hold These Truths," a story of Japanese internment activist Gordon Hirabayashi, Feb. 21-March 2 at Tenney Theatre. The show is dedicated to the memory of U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye. Lisa Rothe will direct and Joel de la Fuente will star in Jeanne Sakata's one-man show as they did in the original Epic Theatre Ensemble New York production in October. "Hold These Truths" is set in Seattle during World War II, where Hirabayashi, a University of Washington student, agonized over government orders to forcibly remove and incarcerate all people of Japanese ancestry on the West Coast. In April, President Barack Obama awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, posthumously to Hirabayashi, who died last year at age 93. For tickets go to www.htyweb.org or call 839-9885.