Morgan's Corner at Paliku Theatre

Hawaii Conservatory of Performing Arts at Windward Community College presents Morgan’s Corner—written and directed by Taurie Kinoshita—at Paliku Theatre November 8–17. The truth behind the local horror story of Morgan’s Corner recounts the trial, retrial and eventual pardoning of James Majors and John Palakiko, two young men sentenced to hang for accidentally killing Therese Wilder in her home near Morgan’s Corner off the old Pali road. One of the most renowned criminal cases in Hawaii of the 20th century, it was the Majors-Palakiko case that helped bring an end to the death penalty.

Morgan’s Corner is an original play dealing with bias, prejudice and inequity, told in five, often radically different, perspectives. Anyone with an interest in local history will want to see this suspenseful, historically based crime-drama.