Whether this ability to transform—both to mutate itself and to promise transformation and, thereby, opportunity to its speaker—is a gift of the English language or a reminder of its use as a tool of ...
The other choice is chaos — let the students run the classroom and no one learns. “English” explores the tyranny, but fudges the chaos. Left unexplained is how one incompetent student eventually aces ...
Questions of identity, belonging and understanding are woven through "English," Sanaz Toossi's Pulitzer-winning drama, which is making its Broadway premiere.