Playbill: It’s not often that your first play out of the gate wins a Pulitzer Prize and makes it to Broadway. But that’s just the case for playwright Sanaz Toossi. Her debut play, English, premiered Off-Broadway in 2022—immediately winning a basket of awards and cementing the young writer as an important new voice to watch. Though to hear Toossi talk about it, it's also been somewhat torturous.
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I saw a trailer for this play earlier in the week on Instagram and the way it was recorded made me think it might've been a new show or movie on Netflix. I went to check when it would be released so I could watch it because it looked like a really good show, and I discovered it was a new play on Broadway. I would love to see this show. I love the idea of it and I think it will truly inspire some people. I thought watching the switch from English to Farsi was so interesting and gives the audience a new perspective. You're watching someone struggle with their English and because you can't communicate to each other, you don't know who they are, you likely underestimate their intelligence or them as a person. But then they switch to their native language and they are speaking fluently and beautifully, expressing themselves and revealing their true capabilities. There was a line from the trailer about that exact thing that I really liked. I can't quote it exactly but pretend a talented playwright rewrote what I just said and inspired you. I think this show is going to do really well, I hope it has a long run so that I have a chance to go see it.
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