HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO – 11.8.18 – “SHIPMENT DAY” on HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO’s “The Conversation” – 11.8.18 (9:35) http://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/post/conversation-thursday-november-8th-2018 SCROLL DOWN TO SEGMENT 5 HPR’s All Things Considered Host Dave Lawrence sat down recently with Hawaii-born playwright/director Lorenzo DeStefano about “Shipment Day”, world premiering Nov. 8, 2018 at Manoa Valley Theatre in Honolulu, including a dramatic reading from the play by Maui-born actor Ku’ulei Shafee in the role of Hansen’s disease activist & author Olivia Robello. Lorenzo begins by describing the sense of fear that surrounded a diagnosis of leprosy in 1934 Honolulu—and not only for the patient.
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