The Vienna Theatre Prize 2017 for best play goes to Ayad Akhtar; last year the Theater HEUTE theatre prize (Germany) 2016 for the best foreign play of the year likewise went to Ayad Akhtar. "Disgraced" is a remarkable play, and that holds true worldwide, for it deals with one of the greatest current social problems — one that, right now, spares no country.5 leading roles: a Jew, a white American woman, an American woman of African descent, a Pakistani who cautiously passes himself off as an Indian, and a young Pakistani who is heading down a bad path.Society: establishedBeginning: cheerfulMood: strainedEnding: painful, but of its timeGenre: pocket tragedy, a tragedy in everyday dress with witty dialoguePersonal note: we know of no more contemporary play that entertains so well in such an intelligent way. Isabelle Redfern performs "Disgraced" both at the Schauspielhaus Hamburg and at the Burgtheater Vienna, and she has surely played her part in both theatre prizes for this exceptional work.
Disgraced
