When he first appears on the long-running television series “Bones,” the character Arastoo Vaziri, an Iranian intern and devout Muslim, pretends to speak heavily accented English so he ll sound “fresh
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Subdued in tone but fully engrossing and deeply moving, 'English' has rich thematic layers; learning another language can have political, economic, even religious undertones.
Hamid Dehghani (Communication M.F.A. ’22) spent over a decade involved in Iran’s theater scene before moving to the U.S. in 2018. Dehghani, who did not speak English before applying to Northwestern for his master’s, is the director of a new play “English,” which premiered in Chicago at the Goodman Theatre on May 10. “English” is.