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The view from Wahiawa: Honolulu Theatre for Youth helps a community rediscover stories of the old in the imagination of the young.(connections)

Gross, Aarin

Mark Lutwak seems to be preoccupied with hunger. It's the first community showing of Honolulu Theatre for Youth's world-premiere play Nothing Is the Same, about the effect on Hawaiian children of the 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor, and Lutwak, director of the play and artistic director of the organization, is handing out green papayas from a paper grocery bag. "I'm leaving town after the show, and I don't want these to go bad," he says, extending an arm toward a small crowd gathered just outside the doors to the Richardson Theatre in Fort Shafter, a town and ...