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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.
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.
Sep 11, 2017 · The Who and the What is the story of Zarina, a writer struggling to complete her first novel, the daughter of immigrants from Pakistan, and a practicing Muslim. Zarina is finally inspired to finish her novel when she finds love with Eli, a white Muslim convert, ending months of writer’s block.
Jan 14, 2018 · Thank goodness Mahwish (Yasmin Ayoun) is an obedient Muslim daughter, safely married to childhood sweetheart Aroun. But who’s Manuel? And so Akhtar’s knowing, often funny scrutiny of faith,...
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...
