“Sometimes I think you can only speak one language,” says a character in Sanaz Toossi’s English ... of the play’s characters makes when trying to describe how English as a language ...

the native language of all the characters onstage. Neshat also highlights Toossi’s serious work ethic. “I think Sanaz wrote a play during tech for ‘English,'” Neshat said with a laugh.

There might be good pedagogical reasons for that, playwright Sanaz Toossi is saying ... subtitles or translations, the characters use accents when speaking English in the play but then remove ...

Sanaz Toossi began writing “English,” her ... and the very un-Persian sound of the letter “W.” When the characters speak in English, they adopt a heavy accent; when they are meant to ...

The first thing one is likely to notice about the four women introduced in Sanaz Toossi’s “English,” now ... Participating in a course designed for advanced learners of English, Ms. Toossi’s ...

Unlike casual language learners — say, in a high school French class, or on Duolingo — for the characters in Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer-winning “English,” language acquisition feels imperative.

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While the action moves in a realistic register, Toossi captures the bilingual quality of the text with a neat theatrical device: when characters speak English, they have an accent, either light or ...