Pulitzer Prize winner Sanaz Toossi’s play about a group of Iranians studying for the Test of English as a Foreign Language transfers to Broadway in an impeccable production.
Whether this ability to transform—both to mutate itself and to promise transformation and, thereby, opportunity to its speaker—is a gift of the English language or a reminder of its use as a tool of ...
The other choice is chaos — let the students run the classroom and no one learns. “English” explores the tyranny, but fudges the chaos. Left unexplained is how one incompetent student eventually aces ...
Few are the standout gems—those plays that conquer an audience so wholly you feel a delicious two-way crackle in the room as a performance progresses. Sanaz Toossi’s English, which opened tonight on ...
Unlike casual language learners — say, in a high school French class, or on Duolingo — for the characters in Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer-winning “English,” language acquisition feels imperative. Set in ...
Questions of identity, belonging and understanding are woven through "English," Sanaz Toossi's Pulitzer-winning drama, which is making its Broadway premiere.
For the students in Sanaz Toossi’s dramedy about mother tongues and other tongues, the world’s lingua franca is not exactly free.
Sanaz Toossi’s buoyant, Pulitzer-winning drama follows a group of Iranians learning English, highlighting the desires and circumscribed circumstances that have brought them to the class.
English,” Sanaz Toossi’s strikingly thoughtful and moving new Broadway play at the Roundabout Theatre, lexplores what you give up when you express yourself in a tongue not ...
Absolutely nothing gets lost in the translation of Sanaz Toossi’s English as the Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a group of ...
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