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PATRICK MARMION: It may have won the Pulitzer Prize, but this schoolroom drama made me long for class to be dismissed
PATRICK MARMION: Why the Royal Shakespeare Company have reopened their once-pioneering backyard theatre, with this flim-flam American-Iranian drama, I have no idea.
We discover that an 18-year-old kid (Sara Hazemi) likes Colombian pop singer Shakira, and an older woman (Lanna Joffrey) is disappointed that her son in Canada doesn't respond to her voice mails. Set in a white-cube classroom in Karaj, near Tehran, it concerns a painfully nice English teacher (Nadia Albina, pictured) who once lived in Manchester Among her adult pupils — who all want to escape the country — Serena Manteghi (right) plays a slightly competitive young woman who's also a bit rude and desperate to be liked
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