Stop Kiss

by Diana Son
directed by Robin Ziroli Clarey

When Callie meets Sara, an unexpected friendship blossoms into a powerful and life-changing love. In Stop Kiss, their relationship unfolds with tenderness, humor, and vulnerability — until a brutal hate crime following their first kiss changes both of their lives forever. Told through a moving non-linear narrative, the play explores love, identity, trauma, and the enduring impact of violence, intolerance and love.

Content Warning:Stop Kiss explores anti-LGBTQ+ prejudice and violence. It contains graphic descriptions of a hate crime, offensive language, and adult content.

Stop Kiss is the fourth of six monthly staged readings in the Play Reading Series, the Mālama Arts initiative to support excitement and offer opportunity for plays in Hilo. Each month, MA will select a play for local actors to read for a live audience. Staged readings are exciting yet low-pressure opportunities to present actors and audiences with new material. With generous support from the County of Hawai’i and in collaboration with Hilo Community Players, Mālama Arts is pleased to offer the Play Reading Series free of cost.

STOP KISS is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Dramatists Play Service. www.concordtheatricals.com