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Turnover: A New Leaf

Turnover A New Leaf Show Banner (b&w vegetables in the background with a blue butterfly alighting on a tanning bed with a fig leaf in it next to the title and dates May 16-18, 2025)

Turnover: A New Leaf

by David Quang Pham

A plant-based musical comedy about how two neighboring families, rooted in prejudice, overturn their views when their queer kids start rooting for each other. Set in the fictional nation of Woodwork that is inhabited by photogenic plants, Malus Crabapple is the FigLeaf nightclub owner who sees transplants as invasive. Meanwhile, Rau Ram is the Salontro salon owner who is trying to earn her Green Card. She teaches her natural-born citizen son Parsley that queerness is unnatural. When a free-spirited pear named Pyrus visits town to spend the summer with their unty Malus, Parsley befriends Pyrus and starts showing his queer self (his mother’s transgression). TURNOVER plants coming-of-age themes of family dynamics, immigrant assimilation, performative activism, body image, and the duality between nature versus nurture.

Show Times & Location

Friday, May 16, 2025 @ 7:30pm

Saturday, May 17, 2025 @ 7:30pm (ASL Interpretation)

Sunday, May 18, 2025 @ 2:00pm

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Location

Judy K. Jolliffe Theatre in the Epic Center

359 S Kalamazoo Mall

Kalamazoo, MI 49007

Cast

Cast:  TBD

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Production

Playwright:  David Quang Pham

Director: TBD

Stage Manager:  TBD

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