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This would normally be when the marriage explodes, but Lawrence makes Minnie a tank.
Perhaps Platt wanted post-quarantine viewers to feel that vicarious escape again?
The text is performed nicely by the men, but it isdetonatedby the women.
They are funny and awful and superb.
Toossi is also interested in the effect of bilingualism on a psyche, though shes more ambivalent.
Do you change your personality, too, when you change languages?
Lawrence was certain that you do; Toossi still wonders.
In an English class in Iran, Toossis characters consider the benefits of letting another language into their minds.
On the surface, theyre desperate to do it.
The oldest student, Roya (Pooya Mohseni), rebels.
(In fact, Omids motivations are baffling and only become more so.)
The Daughter-in-Lawis at City Center through March 20.Englishis at the Atlantic Theater Company through March 20.
