ENGLISH Theatre Talk

Roundabout brings English, by Sanaz Toossi, home to Broadway, after we co-produced its world premiere with Atlantic Theater Company. Knud Adams (Primary Trust) once again directs this Pulitzer Prize-winning play about the universal foibles of language and miscommunication.

About ENGLISH :

The comedy unfolds in an Iranian classroom where adult English learners practice for their proficiency exam. As they leapfrog through a linguistic playground, their wildly different dreams, frustrations, and secrets come to light. Can they overcome the limits of language to discover what they really want to say?

CHAPTERS:

00:00 Intro
00:40 Synopsis of English
02:28 About the Creative Team- Sanaz Toossi
02:43 What English made us think about
03:56 Code Switching
05:58 Comedy in English
06:24 Historical Context
08:10 Closing