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‘Without Art, We’re Gonna Die’: How ‘English’ Playwright Sanaz Toossi Turned Fury Into a Pulitzer-Winning Broadway Comedy
Sanaz Toossi and Marjan Neshat discuss the notably timed Broadway opening of "English" on Broadway.
It was the Muslim travel ban imposed by the U.S. government in early 2017 that prompted playwright Sanaz Toossi to write “English” in the first place. “I was furious and I was devastated,” she said on the new episode of “Stagecraft,” Variety’s theater podcast, in a conversation with the play’s lead actor, Marjan Neshat. Also on the new episode of “Stagecraft,” Toossi and Neshat discuss audience reactions to the play and, in particular, responses to the show’s last 30 seconds, which are performed in Farsi, the native language of all the characters onstage.
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