About the Play

This World Premiere play takes place on Thanksgiving Day of 1973, just five days after Richard Nixon’s infamous “I am not a crook” speech. Two young immigrant women, Luna and Jane, have met at the supermarket and have returned to Luna’s apartment. Both women are married to medical residents who are working on the holiday. The women have given up all they have known for the men they love, but the intensity of their husbands’ schedules has left them both isolated in an unfamiliar place. The women try to prepare the unfamiliar traditional American Thanksgiving meal, while finding connection and conversation with each other. Can this new friendship be a lifeline for them both as they navigate this new world and their changing dreams?

The Heart Sellers is part of the John (Jack) D. Lewis New Play Development Program; the script was commissioned by Milwaukee Rep from playwright Lloyd Suh, the writer of The Chinese Lady (2018/19 Season).