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| writer = [[Ayad Akhtar]]
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| premiere = {{Start date|2012|01}}
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'''''Disgraced''''' is a 2012 play by novelist and screenwriter [[Ayad Akhtar]]. It won the 2013 [[Pulitzer Prize for Drama]].<ref name=T2PPW>{{cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2013-Drama|title=The 2013 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Drama|accessdate=2013-04-25|publisher=[[Pulitzer Prize|Pulitzer.org]]}}</ref> It is Akhtar's first stage play.<ref name=TineoirD>{{cite web|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/theaterloop/ct-ent-0201-disgraced-review-20120131,0,3881150.column|title=Tolerance is no easy out in riveting 'Disgraced': THEATER REVIEW: "Disgraced" at American Theater Company ★★★½|accessdate=2013-04-25|date=2012-01-31|work=[[Chicago Tribune]]|author=Jones, Chris}}</ref> Described as a "combustible powder keg of identity politics,"<ref>{{cite web|last=Gerard|first=Jeremy|title=Pacino’s $377 Ticket Ghettoizes Broadway|url=http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-29/pacino-s-377-ticket-ghettoizes-broadway-jeremy-gerard.html}}</ref> the play depicts racial and ethnic prejudices that "secretly persist in even the most progressive cultural circles."<ref>{{cite web|last=Stasio|first=Marilyn|title=Review: 'Disgraced'|url=http://variety.com/2012/legit/reviews/disgraced-1117948621/}}</ref>
'''''Disgraced''''' is a 2012 play by novelist and screenwriter [[Ayad Akhtar]]. It won the 2013 [[Pulitzer Prize for Drama]].<ref name=T2PPW>{{cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2013-Drama|title=The 2013 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Drama|accessdate=2013-04-25|publisher=[[Pulitzer Prize|Pulitzer.org]]}}</ref> It is Akhtar's first stage play.<ref name=TineoirD>{{cite web|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/theaterloop/ct-ent-0201-disgraced-review-20120131,0,3881150.column|title=Tolerance is no easy out in riveting 'Disgraced': THEATER REVIEW: "Disgraced" at American Theater Company ★★★½|accessdate=2013-04-25|date=2012-01-31|work=[[Chicago Tribune]]|author=Jones, Chris}}</ref> Described as a "combustible powder keg of identity politics,"<ref>{{cite web|last=Gerard|first=Jeremy|title=Pacino’s $377 Ticket Ghettoizes Broadway|url=http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-29/pacino-s-377-ticket-ghettoizes-broadway-jeremy-gerard.html}}</ref> the play depicts racial and ethnic prejudices that "secretly persist in even the most progressive cultural circles."<ref>{{cite web|last=Stasio|first=Marilyn|title=Review: 'Disgraced'|url=http://variety.com/2012/legit/reviews/disgraced-1117948621/}}</ref>


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==Production history==
==Production history==
The play debuted at the American Theater Company in Chicago, Illinois in January 2012.<ref name=Wot2PP/> It played in Chicago until Mar 11, 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theatreinchicago.com/disgraced/5169/|title=Play Details: Disgraced|accessdate=2012-04-25|publisher=TheatreinChicago.com}}</ref> It made its New York debut with an October 23, 2012 &ndash; December 23, 2012 [[Off-Broadway]] run at [[Lincoln Center]].<ref name=Wot2PP>{{cite web|url=http://www.lct.org/showMain.htm?id=214|title=Winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize!|accessdate=2012-04-25|publisher=[[Lincoln Center Theatre]]}}</ref> The London premiere of the play will be an [[Off West End]] opening at the [[Bush Theatre]] in May 2013. Its previews will begin on May 17 before opening on May 22 and running until June 15.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/174731-Londons-Bush-Theatre-Season-to-Include-Disgraced-Plus-New-Plays-by-Cush-Jumbo-and-Rory-Kinnear|title=London's Bush Theatre Season to Include Disgraced, Plus New Plays by Cush Jumbo and Rory Kinnear|accessdate=2013-04-28|date=2013-02-06|work=[[Playbill]]|author=Shenton, Mark}}</ref>
The play debuted at the American Theater Company in [[Chicago, Illinois]] in January 2012.<ref name=Wot2PP/> It played in Chicago until Mar 11, 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theatreinchicago.com/disgraced/5169/|title=Play Details: Disgraced|accessdate=2012-04-25|publisher=TheatreinChicago.com}}</ref> It made its New York debut with an October 23, 2012 &ndash; December 23, 2012 [[Off-Broadway]] run at [[Lincoln Center]].<ref name=Wot2PP>{{cite web|url=http://www.lct.org/showMain.htm?id=214|title=Winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize!|accessdate=2012-04-25|publisher=[[Lincoln Center Theatre]]}}</ref> The London premiere of the play is scheduled to be an [[Off West End]] opening at the [[Bush Theatre]] in May 2013. Its previews are due to begin on May 17 before opening on May 22 and running until June 15.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/174731-Londons-Bush-Theatre-Season-to-Include-Disgraced-Plus-New-Plays-by-Cush-Jumbo-and-Rory-Kinnear|title=London's Bush Theatre Season to Include Disgraced, Plus New Plays by Cush Jumbo and Rory Kinnear|accessdate=2013-04-28|date=2013-02-06|work=[[Playbill]]|author=Shenton, Mark}}</ref>


==Critical commentary==
==Critical commentary==
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==External links==
==External links==
* [http://www.lortel.org/lla_archive/index.cfm?search_by=show&title=Disgraced Internet Off-Broadway Database Listing]
* [http://www.lortel.org/lla_archive/index.cfm?search_by=show&title=Disgraced Internet Off-Broadway Database Listing]
*[http://www.lct.org/showMain.htm?id=214 Lincoln Center webpage]
*[http://www.theatreinchicago.com/disgraced/5169/ Theatre in Chicago webpage]
*[http://www.theatreinchicago.com/disgraced/5169/ Theatre in Chicago webpage]
*[http://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/shows/disgraced_191568/ ''Disgraced''] at Theater Mania
*[http://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/shows/disgraced_191568/ ''Disgraced''] at Theater Mania

Revision as of 21:37, 7 May 2013

Disgraced
Written byAyad Akhtar
Date premieredJanuary 2012 (2012-01)
Place premieredAmerican Theater Company, Chicago, Illinois
SubjectPakistani Muslim heritage

Disgraced is a 2012 play by novelist and screenwriter Ayad Akhtar. It won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.[1] It is Akhtar's first stage play.[2] Described as a "combustible powder keg of identity politics,"[3] the play depicts racial and ethnic prejudices that "secretly persist in even the most progressive cultural circles."[4]

Cast

The New York production opened at the Claire Tow Theater at Lincoln Center in New York on October 23, 2012 with the following cast:

Production history

The play debuted at the American Theater Company in Chicago, Illinois in January 2012.[5] It played in Chicago until Mar 11, 2012.[6] It made its New York debut with an October 23, 2012 – December 23, 2012 Off-Broadway run at Lincoln Center.[5] The London premiere of the play is scheduled to be an Off West End opening at the Bush Theatre in May 2013. Its previews are due to begin on May 17 before opening on May 22 and running until June 15.[7]

Critical commentary

Charles Isherwood of The New York Times, who saw the Off-Broadway production in 2012, said it was "a continuously engaging, vitally engaged play" that "bristles with wit and intelligence" and "puts contemporary attitudes toward religion under a microscope, revealing how tenuous self-image can be for people born into one way of being who have embraced another." [8] Isherwood selected the play as one of his year-end Ten Best Plays of 2012. [9] David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter also selected it as among his Ten Best in New York Theater 2012, writing that Akhtar "staked a claim as one of the boldest voices to appear on the playwriting scene in recent years with this stinging swipe at the fallacy of the post-racial nation." [10]

Of the Chicago production at American Theater company, Chicago Tribune theatre critic Chris Jones praised the show as "intensely arresting." [2] TimeOut Chicago's Kris Vire called the play a "a compact, stunning gut punch addressing the cultural affinities some of us are allowed to escape and those we aren’t." [11] However, Chicago Sun-Times critic Hedy Weiss noted that the plays five characters were all "identity-warped" and the show was a "minefield...that feels all too deliberately booby-trapped by the playwright."[12] The play won the Jeff Award -- honoring excellence in Chicago Theater -- for Best New Play in Chicago 2012. [13]

Entertainment Weekly critic Thom Geier suggested that the ending was underdeveloped, but that the play was well-executed: "Akhtar packs a lot into his scenes, in terms of both coincidence-heavy personal drama and talky disquisitions on religion and politics, but he usually manages to pull back from the edge of too-muchness. There is an admirable restraint to director Kimberly Senior's well-paced scenes. Mandvi, best known for his comedy, has a surprisingly commanding stage presence and captures the full range of his character's internal conflicts."[14]

Plot

American-born, Muslim-raised Manhattan mergers and acquisitions lawyer Amir Kapoor and his Islamic-themed blonde artist wife Emily host an Upper East Side dinner.[8][14] Prior to the dinner Amir, who is on the partner track, got involved in a controversial case. Amir's assimilated nephew, Abe (born Hussein Malik), had concerns regarding the propriety of the arrest of a local imam who is imprisoned on charges of financing terrorist-supporting groups that may be trumped-up,[14] leading him to question whether it was religious persecution.[8] Emily encouraged the reluctant Amir to appear in court in support of the imam, in an unofficial capacity that got mentioned in The New York Times.[8] The case becomes dinner conversation when he hosts a colleague from work and her husband. [8]

The play is performed in 90 minutes.[8]

Themes

Isherwood noted: "As two couples exchange observations about faith and politics in the modern world, the intellectual thickets they find themselves in become increasingly tangled." More specifically he said, it is a play "about thorny questions of identity and religion in the contemporary world, with an accent on the incendiary topic of how radical Islam and the terrorism it inspires have affected the public discourse."[8] Kapoor has "rejected his Muslim upbringing (and even his surname) to better assimilate into his law firm, but he still feels the occasional tug of Islam".[14] Geier wrote: "Disgraced offers an engaging snapshot of the challenge for upwardly mobile Islamic Americans in the post-9/11 age."[14]

Awards and nominations

The Chicago production received four Joseph Jefferson Awards nominations for the August 1, 2011, and July 31, 2012 theatrical productions season on August 21.[15] Disgraced was recognized as the Best New Work – Play or Musical on October 15, 2012.[16]

In its description of the play, the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama committee described it as "a moving play that depicts a successful corporate lawyer painfully forced to consider why he has for so long camouflaged his Pakistani Muslim heritage."[1] On April 3, Aasif Mandvi earned a 2013 Lucille Lortel Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor.[17][18] On April 22 Ayad Akhtar received an Outer Critics Circle Award nominations for the John Gassner Award that is pending May 13 announcement.[19]

2013 Obie Awards are pending a May 20 ceremony.[20] As of April 25, 2013, the 2013 Off-Broadway Alliance Awards are pending with dates to be announced.[21] The Theatre World Awards are pending June 3 announcement.

Chicago production

Year Award Category Nominee Result
2012 Joseph Jefferson Awards Production – Play – Midsize Nominated
Actor in a Principal Role - Play Usman Ally Nominated
New Work – Play or Musical Won
Scenic Design - Midsize Jack Magaw Nominated

Off-Broadway production

Year Award Category Nominee Result
2013 Pulitzer Prize Drama Won
Lucille Lortel Award Outstanding Lead Actor Aasif Mandvi Nominated
Outer Critics Circle Award John Gassner Award Ayad Akhtar Pending

Notes

  1. ^ a b "The 2013 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Drama". Pulitzer.org. Retrieved 2013-04-25.
  2. ^ a b Jones, Chris (2012-01-31). "Tolerance is no easy out in riveting 'Disgraced': THEATER REVIEW: "Disgraced" at American Theater Company ★★★½". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2013-04-25.
  3. ^ Gerard, Jeremy. "Pacino's $377 Ticket Ghettoizes Broadway".
  4. ^ Stasio, Marilyn. "Review: 'Disgraced'".
  5. ^ a b "Winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize!". Lincoln Center Theatre. Retrieved 2012-04-25.
  6. ^ "Play Details: Disgraced". TheatreinChicago.com. Retrieved 2012-04-25.
  7. ^ Shenton, Mark (2013-02-06). "London's Bush Theatre Season to Include Disgraced, Plus New Plays by Cush Jumbo and Rory Kinnear". Playbill. Retrieved 2013-04-28.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g Isherwood, Charles (2012-10-22). "Beware Dinner Talk on Identity and Islam: 'Disgraced,' by Ayad Akhtar, With Aasif Mandvi". The New York Times. Retrieved 2013-04-28.
  9. ^ Isherwood, Charles. "Hottest Tickets of the Year".
  10. ^ Rooney, David. "David Rooney on the Record Year in New York Theater".
  11. ^ "Disgraced at American Theater Company".
  12. ^ Weiss, Hedy (2012-02-02). "American Theater Co.'s 'Disgraced' creates a predictable chaos". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved 2013-04-25.
  13. ^ Jones, Kenneth (2012-10-16). "Iceman Cometh, Follies, Hero, Disgraced, Caroline O'Connor Are 2012 Jeff Award Winners". Playbill. Retrieved 2013-04-28.
  14. ^ a b c d e Geier, Thom (2012-10-25). "Disgraced (2012): The Daily Show's Aasif Mandvi is the compelling star of an Off Broadway drama about a lapsed Muslim yuppie in post-9/11 Manhattan". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2013-04-28.
  15. ^ "Jeff Awards Equity Nominations Celebrate: Outstanding 2011-2012 Productions" (PDF). Joseph Jefferson Awards. 2012-08-21. Retrieved 2013-04-28.
  16. ^ ""Iceman" and "Follies" Take Top Honors: At The 44th Annual Jeff Awards" (PDF). Joseph Jefferson Awards. 2012-10-15. Retrieved 2013-04-28.
  17. ^ Jones, Kenneth (2013-04-03). "Lucille Lortel Nominees Include The Flick, Murder Ballad, Jake Gyllenhaal, Vanessa Redgrave". Playbill. Retrieved 2013-04-27.
  18. ^ Healy, Patrick (2013-05-05). "'Piano Lesson' and 'The Whale' Win Lortel Awards". The New York Times. Retrieved 2013-05-06.
  19. ^ Gans, Andrew (2013-04-22). "Outer Critics Circle Nominees Announced; Pippin Earns 11 Nominations". Playbill. Retrieved 2013-04-27.
  20. ^ Gans, Andrew (04-02-13). "Jessica Hecht and Jeremy Shamos Will Host Obie Awards; Meryl Streep Will Present Lifetime Achievement Honor". Playbill. Retrieved 2013-04-27. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  21. ^ Hetrick, Adam (2013-04-25). "Playbill.com's 2013 Theatre Awards Roundup". Playbill. Retrieved 2013-04-27.
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