The play is centered around four Iranian adults preparing for the Test of English as a Foreign Language, which is crucial for their ambitions to study or live abroad. The students include Elham, an aspiring medical student; Omid, who seeks a green card; Roya, who wants to communicate with her Canadian granddaughter; and Goli, who is earnest and ...

Feb 28, 2022 · Elham (Tala Ashe) has been accepted to medical school in Australia. Goli (Ava Lalezarzadeh) is only eighteen, but she’s been captivated by the language since she was small; English may be the...

Jan 24, 2025 · There remains some value in a quiet, contemplative play, even one with some loose threads. “English” goes inward, and there can be beauty in that. “When I speak English, I know I will always be stranger,” Elham says to her teacher. “But I am hearing myself….I hear my home.” English Todd Haimes Theater through March 2, 2025

Aug 29, 2023 · The play tells the story of four Iranians who are enrolled in an English language course as they grapple with how different forms of self-expression impact identity. What parts of themselves do they have to give up in order to speak a language that the rest of the world has deemed mandatory?

1 day ago · Elham is dedicated and driven, and when she answers wrongly or trips up during a class exercise, she takes the infraction personally. This leads Elham and Marjan to constantly clash. The undercurrent of English is why these four students want to learn the language and why Marjan has dedicated her life to teaching others. Interwoven with their ...

Feb 7, 2024 · Elham (Tara Grammy), the most competitive of the students, is frustrated by her slow progress in learning English. She has received a conditional acceptance to medical school in Australia, but...

Feb 6, 2024 · Seated behind a sterile metal desk, instructor Marjan slips an “English-Only” sign from the drawer, quickly establishing the space as one intended to prepare, through six weeks of immersion,...

Apr 8, 2024 · There’s Elham (Shereen Khatibloo), an intense graduate student desperate to pass her TOEFL so she can go to medical school in Australia. Omid (Emon Elboudwarej), the star student with American...

Jul 20, 2023 · Sanaz Toossi will star as Elham in her Pulitzer-winning play English at Massachusetts' Barrington Stage Company, with performances running September 27-October 15 on the Boyd-Quinson Stage ...

Feb 22, 2022 · In a rich new play by Sanaz Toossi, four Iranians and their language teacher find second selves in a second tongue.