Presented by Underground Railway Theater
Written by Cori Thomas
Directed by Benny Sato Ambush
Oct. 20 – Nov. 13, 2016
Central Square Theater
Cambridge, MA
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Review by Kitty Drexel
(Cambridge, MA) Spoiler alert: No one dies in When January Feels Like Summer. No one even gets beaten up. In fact, everyone gets a happy ending. Thomas’ play is extraordinary because sweet but nosy Indira gets to be happy. Thomas’ POC characters get to live their lives without some white person causing unnecessary trouble. It shouldn’t be unusual that a play about POCs or a trans woman isn’t about the violence inflected on them, but it is. It shouldn’t be revolutionary for a person to go about their business. Yet, here we are. Continue reading