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- Now, in The Who and the What, Akhtar breaks new controversial ground: contemporary women and Islam in America. In Scene One, we meet two young Pakistani/American sisters — Mawish (a nurse, married to a Muslim) and Zarina (a writer, still single), as they discuss love, marriage, and sex in their father’s home in Atlanta, Georgia.
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With a nod to Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar has crafted a beautifully multi-layered play, simultaneously a loving domestic comedy and a serious, far-reaching story about faith, doubt, and the search for truth.
Jun 17, 2014 · Ayad Akhtar, winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for drama for “Disgraced,” has written a strong, colorful new play taking on fundamentalist reactions to questions about the role of women in Islam. Akhtar’s “The Who & The What” opened Monday night in an LCT3 production at Lincoln Center’s Claire Tow Theater.
Jun 30, 2014 · The Who & the What. Akhtar is attuned to the issues facing an immigrant generation caught between 21st-century mores and the conservative traditions of their faith. by Gerard Raymond.
Jun 17, 2014 · By Charles Isherwood. June 16, 2014. Matters of faith and family, gender and culture are stirred together into a fiery-flavored stew in “The Who & the What,” the probing new play by Ayad Akhtar...
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Sep 27, 2017 · This philosophical question is what Pakistani-American writer and actor Ayad Akhtar describes as the seed of his play The Who & the What. Directed by Samip Raval and co-produced by South Asian...
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Jun 30, 2014 · But for today’s Islamic immigrants in America, it’s a harsh reality — that is, according to Ayad Akhtar, an astute playwright, novelist, and screenwriter who’s deeply concerned with issues of identity and assimilation.
Jan 14, 2018 · As Elay, Michael Moshonov amply demonstrates that you can’t tell a book by its milquetoast cover, while Yasmin Ayoun does the best she can with Mahwish, whose character Akhtar never quite ...
