Playwright Sanaz Toossi on the stage, Atlantic Theater, NYC, 2022

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Playwright Sanaz Toossi, 2022

English

by Sanaz Toossi

Directed by Knud Adams

scenic design by Marsha Ginsberg

cast:

Pooya Mohseni, Tala Ashe, Ava Lalezarzadeh, Marjan Neshat, Hadi Tabbal

Elham:

You are Iranian but your English is a lot of things.

It wants to be American and some of the time British and now it does not know what it is.

When I speak English, I know

I will always be

stranger.

Okay I know what I sound like. I hear my voice too.

But I am hearing myself.

I hear myself very loud.

I am hearing my sister and traffic in the morning and my chemistry teacher from in the high school.

I hear my home.

What do you hear? 

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Playwright Portrait Project