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Concord Theatricals Corp. · Print & ebook · August 7, 2023
A Plays pick for readers exploring English.
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- Who it’s for
- A nimble, classroom-friendly play about English and the way it’s used.
- Genres
- American Plays, Plays by Women, Iranian History
- Published
- Concord Theatricals Corp., August 7, 2023
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Winner! 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Drama Winner! 2023 Obie Award for Best New American Play It's 2008 and four Iranians assemble triweekly in a TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) class in Karaj Iran. The students are led by Marjan an anglophile who abolishes Farsi from her classroom. They translate Ricky Martin and endure major preposition confusion; they discover how to be funny in English and ponder what they will lose in the process.
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As the class slowly devolves into a linguistic mess some students cling tighter to their mother tongue while others embrace the possibilities of a new language.
Language Play
A nimble, classroom-friendly play about English and the way it’s used.
Come here for
- Classroom-ready language play
- Playful, performance-minded setup
Expect
- Curriculum-friendly read
- Staging-forward, discussion-ready
Where it sits
| American Plays | 71% |
|---|---|
| Iranian History | 62% |
| Plays by Women | 46% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Tragicomedy
- Authors
- Sanaz Toossi
- Publisher
- Concord Theatricals Corp.
- Published
- August 7, 2023
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Tragicomedy