Winner of the Obie Award for Best New American Play and the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play! Language and identity intertwine in this incisive, funny, and moving seriocomedy set in a classroom in Iran in 2008, where four adult students are preparing for the Test of English as a Foreign Language. But as they pursue fluency in a language that for them represents access, opportunity, and even escape, they find that while English may expand their world, it might also limit their voice.
BERKELEY REPERTORY COMPANY
By: SANAZ TOOSSI
Director: MINA MORITA
Scenic Designer: ANNIE SMART
Lighting Designer: REZA BEHJAT
Sound Designer: MIKHAIL FIKSEL
Photos By: ALESSANDA MELLO
CHRISTINE MIRZAYAN(GOLI)
From the left: SARAH NINA HAYON(ROYA), CHRISTINE MIRZAYAN(GOLI), MEHRY ESLAMINIA(ELHAM)
"Just wanted to remind you, "Nate" is not your name." SARAH NINA HAYON as Roya
"I Fucking win" MEHRY ESLAMINIA as ELHAM
"I have this amazing dream"
AMIR MALAKLOU (OMID) and SAHAR BIBIYAN (MARJAN)
"This is not good, I need mirror!" CHRISTINE MIRZAYAN as GOLI
"Don't worry about it , Borat!" AMIR MALAKLOO (RIGHT) and MEHRY ESLAMINIA (ELHAM)
"You are a native speaker." MEHRY ESLAMINIA (ELHAM) and CHRISTINE MIRZAYAN(GOLI)
From left: CHRISTINE MIRZAYAN(GOLI), MEHRY ESLAMINIA(ELHAM), SARAH NINA HAYON(ROYA) and SAHAR BIBIYAN(MARJAN)
MEHRY ESLAMINIA (ELHAM)
