Orange Julius
by Basil Kreimendahl

Name: Orange Julius
Brand: Basil Kreimendahl
SKU: 9780822237242
Rating: 3.77 (1 reviews)

Off-Broadway

Orange Julius Book Cover — Orange Julius Cover

Highlights

Female

Male

75 mins Present Day Role(s) for Trans Actor(s) Role(s) for Non-Binary Actor(s) Unit Set/Multiple Settings Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes

Synopsis

Nut grew up the youngest child of Julius, a Vietnam vet, in working-class America.

As Julius suffers the toxic effects of Agent Orange, Nut worries their time together may run out before they can embrace something essential about their relationship.

Paging through forgotten photo albums and acting out old war movies, Nut leaps through time and memory, tracing the complex intimacy between father and child when the child is transgender, fighting for a mutual recognition before it’s too late.

Press Reviews

"Excellent… [Kreimendahl] creates a portrait of real family dynamics far more ‘realistic’ than those in a dozen well-made plays… This is the rare play about a child coming to grips with the damage he’s done his parent, rather than the other way around."
— Time Out New York

"Kreimendahl delivers a sensitive and moving portrait of Julius and his family – one painfully familiar to millions of American military families."
— TheaterMania

"Kreimendahl’s drama is a sympathetic, eloquent… Grapple[s] with family, gender identity and the legacy of the Vietnam War… There’s a lot to like about Orange Julius: its articulate, forthright personal narrative; its attention to veterans’ experience; its foregrounding of a trans character without making Nut’s transition the sole focus of the plot. That Kreimendahl resists inserting present-day drama into Nut’s story, allowing the play to live entirely in the before, shows admirable restraint."
— Village Voice

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Julius Nut’s father, a man in his fifties – sixties.	male	—	Nut’s father, a man in his fifties – sixties.
France Nut’s mother, a woman in her fifties – sixties.	female	—	Nut’s mother, a woman in her fifties – sixties.
Crimp Nut’s sister, a woman in her mid-thirties. Feminine sexuality, but tough working-class.	female	—	Nut’s sister, a woman in her mid-thirties. Feminine sexuality, but tough working-class.
Ol Boy A young man in his early twenties. He’s a hyper-masculine figure of Nut’s creation.	male	—	A young man in his early twenties. He’s a hyper-masculine figure of Nut’s creation.
Nut A young trans-masculine person. Tough and masculine.	—	—	A young trans-masculine person. Tough and masculine.