Akhtar, who won the award for his play “Disgraced,” talks about it on the latest episode of Stagecraft, Variety‘s theater podcast. Either he’d believe he deserved the award, the playwright explains, or he wouldn’t — and he didn’t like either option.
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Stagecraft Podcast: Ayad Akhtar Talks ‘Junk,’ Pulitzers and Faith
Akhtar, who won the award for his play “Disgraced,” talks about it on the latest episode of Stagecraft, Variety‘s theater podcast. Either he’d believe he deserved the award, the playwright explains, or he wouldn’t — and he didn’t like either option.
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I've always looked up to Ayad Akhtar as a person who has paved the way for artists like me, that have a pretty middle-eastern name and brown skin. Akhtar has a very delicate style that originally showed very clearly through "Disgraced" where he was able to cover topics in an engaging way without getting to symbolic and he kept it constrained to what is happening in the scene and in the conversation. Although I love seeing muslim characters onstage, I find it even more thrilling to know that he is writing a play with no muslim characters that has to do with something as seldom as finances, it proves that Akhtar is more than just a token writer for middle-eastern people, he is a contributing writer to all aspects of contemporary theatre. The article mentions that the topic of finances isn't something that isn't usually captivating, but lately with films like 'The Big Short' there is a proven market for finances in theatre, and the perfect playwright to capture that type of minutia and imagery within his writing is Akhtar.
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