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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.
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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 · 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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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.
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.
Sep 11, 2017 · Ayad Akhtar’s follow-up to his 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama-winning Disgraced has no shortage of this type of conflict. 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 ...
Jun 25, 2015 · Akhtar’s third play, “The Who & The What,” written in 2014, now occupies the stage at Victory Gardens. It verges on ethnic sitcom. Like its two predecessors, “The Who & T he What” deals, broadly speaking, with the conflict between Muslim heritage and mainstream American culture.
