Name: English
ISBN: 9780573709883

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Language Play

A nimble, classroom-friendly play about English and the way it’s used.

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Classroom-ready language play
Playful, performance-minded setup

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Curriculum-friendly read
Staging-forward, discussion-ready

Book Details

Authors: Sanaz Toossi
Publisher: Concord Theatricals Corp.
Published: August 7, 2023
Format: Print & ebook
Theme: Type / Tragicomedy
Reading lane: Type / Tragicomedy

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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. As the class slowly devolves in...

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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. 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.