Disgraced, Ayad Akhtar
Disgraced, Ayad Akhtar
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Disgraced

Author: Ayad Akhtar

Narrator: Geoffrey Arend, Behzad Dabu, Emily Swallow, Hari Dhillon, Sameerah Luqmaan-Harris

Unabridged: 1 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/01/2018

Synopsis

Amir has left his Pakistani heritage behind in an attempt to make partner at his corporate law firm, but his wife Emily doesn’t share his negative feelings about Islam - she’s encouraged Amir to help with the case of a controversial imam. When they throw a dinner party for Amir’s colleague Jory and her husband Isaac, the hard truths revealed lead to the unraveling of their carefully constructed lives. Winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast production starring: Geoffrey Arend as Isaac
Behzad Dabu as Abe
Hari Dhillon as Amir
Sameerah Luqmaan-Harris as Jory
Emily Swallow as Emily Directed by Brian Kite. Recorded live at UCLA’s James Bridges Theater in April 2018.

About Ayad Akhtar

Ayad Akhtar is a playwright, novelist, the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the author of AMERICAN DERVISH, published in over 20 languages and named a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2012. His plays include Disgraced (Lincoln Center, Broadway; Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Tony nomination) and The Invisible Hand (NYTW; Obie Award, Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award, Olivier, and Evening Standard nominations). As a screenwriter, he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay for The War Within.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sue

I read this play on the recommendation of a friend who has seen the play and then bought a copy and promptly loaned it to me to read. My immediate response on finishing was "Wow!" I can't imagine how powerful this would be to see on the stage. Amir and Emily are living a very good American life---she......more

Goodreads review by Jeff

While I admire what Akhtar is up to here, I just don't see what Pulitzer Committee did. For one thing, this play suffers from what I like to call "God of Carnage" syndrome: let's get a bunch of upper-class, educated folk in a room and wait until they say terrible things to each other. In addition, I......more

Goodreads review by Shannon

Ayad Akhtar, author of the successful novel American Dervish (still on my TBR pile), is a Pakistani-American novelist and playwright whose 2013 play Disgraced has been a hit on the stage. I haven't seen it, unfortunately, but I suspect that the stage production would have all the intensity, dynamism......more

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