In this classroom, only English is spoken. The teacher, Marjan (Marjan Neshat), enforces this rule harshly — if you speak any ...

The cast does commendable work bringing their characters to life: Ashe’s Elham is ferocious, prickly, and competitive; Tabbal’s Omid is lovable but too good; Lalezarzadeh’s Goli is young ...

“Sometimes I think you can only speak one language,” says a character in Sanaz Toossi’s English ... them — a sting and a threat. “Goli,” says Elham, always brutally blunt in ...

Politics arise only when Elham confides in Goli: I have this amazing dream sometimes that the Persian Empire kept growing. And Cyrus the Great would still be our king. Instead of the Americans ...

The first thing one is likely to notice about the four women introduced in Sanaz Toossi’s “English,” now making ... Joan Marcus Marjan’s youngest pupil, a wide-eyed teenager named Goli, whose naivete ...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning play, set in an E.S.L. classroom in Iran, examines the internal displacements of learning a language.

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Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick For the students in Sanaz Toossi ... Is English a bully? Goli loves it because it can do so much. Elham dislikes it for the ...

All of those threads are deftly woven through “English,” an intimate yet profoundly resonant drama by Sanaz Toossi ... hurdle to starting a new chapter. Elham (Tala Ashe), whose accent ...

Sanaz Toossi doesn’t know quite how to feel when we speak in early November. On the one hand, the 33-year-old playwright’s fleet and heartfelt drama English—about a group of people (parents ...