Book
English
Sanaz Toossi
Concord Theatricals Corp. · Print & ebook · August 7, 2023
Reading lane: Type / Tragicomedy
A Plays pick for readers exploring English.
At a Glance
Why This Clicks
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
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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Publisher Categories
Type / Tragicomedy
About This Book
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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