When January feels like summer
By: by Cori Thomas
Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Woodstock, Illinois
Language: eng
Number of pages: 83
ISBN-13: 9781619591103
Subjects: Man-woman relationships; Drama; Marriage; Gender identity; Gender nonconformity; Transgenderism
Description: "Five characters stumble toward the possibilities of being sene, being heard and being loved one unusually warm January day in Harlem. Devaun and Jeron are two young African-American men who are looking to earn respect in the neighborhood. Nirmala Singh and her brother, Ishan, run a small neighborhood grocery store. Nirmala's husband, Prasad, has been in a coma for three years after a robbery gone wrong. Ishan desperately wants gender reassignment surgery so he can transition to female, change his name to Indira and start a dating service. He wants Nirmala to pull the plug and cash in Prasad's million-dollar life insurance to fund his surgery. Devaun and Jeron's door-to-door poster campaign to make the neighborhood aware of a sex predator brings them into the store and the lives of Nirmala and Indira. Indira's first attempt at matchmaking is with Joe, a lonely neighboor sanitation worker with a crush on Nirmala. Meanwhile, Devoun is smitten with pre-op Indira, who agrees to go out on a date with him."
Notes: Drama/Comedy. Cast: 3m., 1w., 1 pre-op transgender (m. to w.) who can be played by either gender (prefer transgender). Flexible set. Approximate running time: 120 minutes. Code: WJ7.