Dane101.com – Submitted by Emily Mills
I could start this with a very clever reference to the dictionary definition of the word “normal,” but I suspect it would only confuse the matter even more. What’s normal? What’s odd? That’s the big question being tackled in the Stage Q production of Jane Anderson’s comic drama, “Looking for Normal.”
The play follows the story of 25-years-married couple and their family dealing with the father’s decision to have gender reassignment surgery. The dad, Roy, played with sincerity and great struggle by Doug Holtz, confesses his lifelong knowledge of being a woman trapped in a man’s body while at couple’s therapy with the family pastor. Irma, his wife, suddenly finds herself not only dealing with the usual middle-age ups and downs of menopause and unruly teenaged children, but now this major revelation, too.