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English With an Accent (w/ Sanaz Toossi)

English With an Accent (w/ Sanaz Toossi)

FromThe Roxane Gay Agenda


English With an Accent (w/ Sanaz Toossi)

FromThe Roxane Gay Agenda

ratings:
Length:
32 minutes
Released:
Mar 22, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Sanaz Toosi channeled her anger about the Muslim travel ban into comedy. Her play “English,” set in Iran, explores the lives of an English teacher and her students. She talks to Roxane about the experience of so many immigrants–imperfectly speaking a second language, never fully fitting in. Plus, Roxane reflects on her own parents’ accents.
Mentions:
●     “English” at the Atlantic Theater Company. https://atlantictheater.org/production/english/
●     Eleven Madison Park https://www.elevenmadisonpark.com/
Credits: Curtis Fox is the producer. Our researcher is Yessenia Moreno. Production help from Kaitlyn Adams and Meg Pillow. Theme music by Taka Yasuzawa and Alex Sugiura.
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Released:
Mar 22, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (50)

Hear to Slay is the Black feminist podcast of your dreams—compelling conversations curated in only the way Black women can. Roxane Gay and Tressie McMillan Cottom offer uncommonly incisive reads of the politics that shape the world we live in and the popular culture we consume. If you want to laugh as much as you want to be challenged, if you’re seriously smart but refuse to take yourself too seriously at all, come a little closer because we are here and hear, to slay.