{"id":4240,"date":"2015-04-27T13:30:51","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T01:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/?p=4240"},"modified":"2015-09-15T22:47:55","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T10:47:55","slug":"goodbye-my-feleni-home-cafe-apia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/goodbye-my-feleni-home-cafe-apia\/","title":{"rendered":"GOODBYE MY FELENI: Home Cafe, Apia"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4241\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4241\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_1690.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4241\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_1690.jpg?resize=525%2C394\" alt=\"Closing night audience heads into the theatre.\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4241\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Closing night audience heads into the theatre.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Gosh it&#8217;s warm here.<\/p>\n<p>With many thanks to the\u00a0Apia High Commission, I was able to attend the last two\u00a0nights of\u00a0<em>Goodbye My Feleni<\/em>&#8216;s season in <strong>Samoa<\/strong>. Yep.<\/p>\n<p>It took a village, of course:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the actors \u2014 <strong>Sakura\u00a0Siaosi Seumanutafa<\/strong>, <b>George Randolph Tuiletufuga<\/b>, <b>Myka Stanley<\/b>, <b>Tonumaipe&#8217;a J Aiolupotea<\/b>, <b>Iosefa Enari<\/b>, <b>Joshua E G Aiono<\/b>, and <b>Anthony Sileli O&#8217;Byrne<\/b>;<\/li>\n<li>the directors\u00a0<strong>Fiona Collins<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Gaea Asolelei To&#8217;alepai<\/strong>;<\/li>\n<li>the production was driven by\u00a0<b>Sophie Vickers<\/b>\u00a0for the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzembassy.com\/samoa\" target=\"_blank\">Apia High Commission<\/a>, overseen by High Commissioner <strong>Jacqui Frizzell<\/strong>, and supported by <strong>Mary Hughes<\/strong> and fellow high commission people;<\/li>\n<li>and the awesome people at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HomeCafeSamoa\" target=\"_blank\">Home Cafe<\/a> \u2014\u00a0<strong>Frank<\/strong><strong> the Island&#8217;s Most Aws&#8217; Barista<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Loia the Chef<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Setu the Bouncer<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Jay the Friendly Taxi Driver<\/strong>,\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Marianne the Bar Manager<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m chuffed: that <i>Feleni<\/i> has been shared overseas <i>again<\/i>; and that the play\u00a0has enabled me to visit my parents&#8217; birth country.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4242\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4242\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_1696.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4242\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_1696.jpg?resize=525%2C394\" alt=\"The cast of the Apia season with local RSA admirers.\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4242\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cast of the Apia season with local RSA admirers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gosh it&#8217;s warm here. With many thanks to the\u00a0Apia High Commission, I was able to attend the last two\u00a0nights of\u00a0Goodbye My Feleni&#8216;s season in Samoa. Yep. It took a village, of course: the actors \u2014 Sakura\u00a0Siaosi Seumanutafa, George Randolph Tuiletufuga, Myka Stanley, Tonumaipe&#8217;a J Aiolupotea, Iosefa Enari, Joshua E G Aiono, and Anthony Sileli O&#8217;Byrne; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/goodbye-my-feleni-home-cafe-apia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;GOODBYE MY FELENI: Home Cafe, Apia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[1114,244,1101,1098],"class_list":["post-4240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theatre","tag-apia","tag-goodbye-my-feleni","tag-home-cafe","tag-samoa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4240"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4256,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240\/revisions\/4256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}