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Disgraced - Affirmative (Re)Action Episode 33

Author
El Centro Productions
Published
Tue 19 Oct 2021
Episode Link
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/affirmative-reaction/episodes/Disgraced---Affirmative-ReAction-Episode-33-e18vp24

Disgraced is a 2012 play by novelist and screenwriter Ayad Akhtar. It premiered in Chicago and has had Off-Broadway and Off West End engagements. The play, which won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play is centered on sociopolitical themes such as Islamophobia and the self-identity of Muslim-American citizens. It focuses on a dinner party between four people with very different backgrounds. As discussion turns to politics and religion, the mood quickly becomes heated. Described as a "combustible powder keg of identity politics, the play depicts racial and ethnic prejudices that "secretly persist in even the most progressive cultural circles. It is also said to depict the challenge for upwardly mobile Muslim Americans in the post-9/11 America.


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