“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.

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 ...

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 has written 1 shows including English (Playwright). What awards has Sanaz Toossi been nominated for? Outstanding Play (Drama Desk Awards) for Wish You Were Here, Pulitzer Prize for ...

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.

Their dreams, frustrations and secrets come to the forefront. Will “English only” expand or limit what they truly want to say? This comic and heartfelt play about language and identity won ...

Absolutely nothing gets lost in the translation of Sanaz Toossi’s English as ... each of the actors adopts a broken English style of speech when the characters are attempting their new language.

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 ...