COMEDY/         SYNOPSIS…

SHARON (45 years old) is a Chef (head cook woman) in a fashionable French gastronomic restaurant in Manhattan. Her assistant chef is LILAH (40 years old and a very beautiful woman).

The story begins in the kitchen of the establishment where the two cooks are busy at work.

Ah, but Sharon loves Lilah and Lilah loves Sharon. And our two lesbians are a couple. Not only that but Sharon is a WASP and Lilah, having Pakistani origins, is a Muslim.

Their relationship however is about to undergo an upheaval when JOANNA, a jewish girl, waitress at the restaurant, introduces her boyfriend, a future rabbi, announcing at the same time that they are to be married.

Confronted with the unexpected, it will be Lilah, the Muslim, who will have to act at being a “Yiddish mamma” on the day their engagement is celebrated.

And what could have been a drama develops into a crazy comedy as the story bounces from one hilarious situation to another.

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Notes

To write and develop a story concerning lesbians is not without risk. The main pitfalls being gratuitous vulgarity and too many jokes of a dubious sexual nature.

This has all, I hope, been avoided.

What must therefore be ensured in both the production and the directing is that neither overly stresses the clichés and labels attached to these women.

The two actresses playing the lesbians must therefore have a natural simplicity and connivance to avoid the obvious linked to their homosexual state.

The story is a comedy in which Sharon and Lilah’s relationship will face problems.

They must be lovable, never ridiculous, and endearingly comical. In short, gay women and gaity together.

The principal reasons that make the story interesting:

- It contains all the qualities of comedy or vaudeville with its truculent verbal sparring.

- The singular relationship between the three women, one protestant, the other muslim, the third jewish (a message that nonetheless avoids ambiguity and compromise).

- A larger-than-life Jewish mother performed with brio by a Pakistani woman.

- Our two women’s occupation in life: skilled Chefs in a gastronomic restaurant attired in their spotless aprons and chef’s hats.

- A story that continually underlines the shame gays and lesbians feel when admitting their difference.

- And it includes the category of society still prisoner of a certain morality.

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