The play Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar, was first put on stage during 2012 at New York’s Lincoln Center Theater, among other awards the play won the Pulitzer Prize for drama. It is presented in our Miami area at the GableStage, and is directed by Joseph Adler. Starring Armando Acevedo (Amir), Angel Dominguez (Abe), Betsy Graver (Emily), Karen Stephens (Jory), and Gregg Weiner (Isaac), the story presents a post-911 socio-religious struggle of four people living in New York. Amir a lawyer who is married to Emily a painter, who happens to be working on painting inspired in Islamic art. Issac is an art dealer who Emily is trying to pursuit him to sell her work. Abe who was previously named Hussein, and changed his name trying to deviate the attention
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This play is a call to our attention, and the importance of cultural sensitivity, is implied by the fact that this play combines a Muslim who has tried to leave his faith behind if that helps him to be fully accepted into the society (Amir), it also has a classic American girl (Emily) who happens to sympathize with the Islamic religion, it has an African-American woman (Jory) who still makes point clear of the still present struggles that the minority to which she belongs still face in the United States of the 21th century, and lastly a Jewish man (Issac) who is attack by Amir because of the long lasting (over 2000 years) rivalry that the two religious have, and apparently still can show up at a dinner …show more content…
He is asked by Abe to try to help a Muslim community member at his perhaps unfair trial. He hints that he should, but that is not the right social move to do. He proofed himself right, after going to the guys hearing he was attacked by The New York Times and by the law firm at which he worked, and actually cut on his chances to move forward. A tremendous message is displayed in the play, the drama in the played was enhanced by setting, it is set in a family room of a New York non-traditional mixed family, even thou they are both American born a Caucasian girl who favors and actively defends the Islamic religion, and an ex-Muslim with Pakistani roots, is not a couple that can be consider the traditional American family. It is a simply scenario but that helps avoiding clutter and the background importance of the family and the social impact that the play could
This play is a call to our attention, and the importance of cultural sensitivity, is implied by the fact that this play combines a Muslim who has tried to leave his faith behind if that helps him to be fully accepted into the society (Amir), it also has a classic American girl (Emily) who happens to sympathize with the Islamic religion, it has an African-American woman (Jory) who still makes point clear of the still present struggles that the minority to which she belongs still face in the United States of the 21th century, and lastly a Jewish man (Issac) who is attack by Amir because of the long lasting (over 2000 years) rivalry that the two religious have, and apparently still can show up at a dinner …show more content…
He is asked by Abe to try to help a Muslim community member at his perhaps unfair trial. He hints that he should, but that is not the right social move to do. He proofed himself right, after going to the guys hearing he was attacked by The New York Times and by the law firm at which he worked, and actually cut on his chances to move forward. A tremendous message is displayed in the play, the drama in the played was enhanced by setting, it is set in a family room of a New York non-traditional mixed family, even thou they are both American born a Caucasian girl who favors and actively defends the Islamic religion, and an ex-Muslim with Pakistani roots, is not a couple that can be consider the traditional American family. It is a simply scenario but that helps avoiding clutter and the background importance of the family and the social impact that the play could