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A Drama of Language and Limits
The Wall Street Journal|January 24, 2025
Sanaz Toossi's buoyant, Pulitzer-winning play on Broadway follows a group of Iranians learning English
A Drama of Language and Limits

You might expect a play set in the repressive and oppressive culture of Iran in 2008 to be a grim portrait of blighted lives and occluded spirits. But Sanaz Toossi's "English," which won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 2023, confounds any such preconceptions. A delicate, buoyant comedy about a small group of adults studying the language of the title, the play disarms and delights with its depiction of ordinary Iranian citizens seeking with determination to expand the horizons of their lives. For all of them, a firm knowledge of English is viewed as a pathway out of their circumscribed circumstances, although allusions to politics and the country's religious regime are nonexistent.

The play, a co-production between the Atlantic Theater Company (where it was first seen off-Broadway in 2022) and the Roundabout Theatre Company (which is presenting its Broadway transfer), is performed in English, of course, but Ms.

Toossi has conceived a clever way of denoting the dialogue that, in the world of the play, is in fact Farsi.

When the characters are speaking English, it is with accents of varying degrees of thickness, while their exchanges in their native tongue are delivered in unaccented English. (It may sound confusing but you quickly catch on.) The instructor in the prep course for the Test of English as a Foreign Language is Marjan (Marjan Neshat), who lived for several years in Manchester, England. "Why did you go there?" asks the lone male student, Omid (Hadi Tabbal). "Hugh Grant," Marjan replies. "Why did you come back?" Omid then queries.

هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة January 24, 2025 من The Wall Street Journal.

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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة January 24, 2025 من The Wall Street Journal.

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