14 to allow the creative team time to address areas of concern raised by company members over depictions of race and representation. 7, the Public announced that the musical’s first preview would be delayed until Oct. It took Ari’s request to abandon his character’s accent for us to examine this timeline and to realize that less perceived ‘otherness’ would add to the dramatic impact of the piece.”īut late last month, just a week before the production’s scheduled start of Oct. “It was assumed he came in his teen years and that much of his education had happened in Syria. with his mother,” Sullivan told Playbill. “It is not enough to just play a role and have fun, it really needs to exist and align politically, spiritually, artistically, for me…I thought to myself, ‘my brown body needs to be not seen as an “other” anymore,’ so I’m actually trying to morph this opportunity.”Īccording to the Playbill article, the creative team agreed that Stachel’s character needn’t speak with the accent. “Tarek’s accent had to do with the timeline of his coming to the U.S. “I got to the point where I couldn’t separate the experiences I was having in the world with what I was doing on stage,” said Stachel, who was born and raised in California and whose father is the son of Yemenite Jewish immigrants. and so, in Stachel’s opinion, would not have a Syrian accent. Though he performed the stage role with an accent during the production’s development, Stachel more recently questioned the approach, explaining in an interview with Playbill that the character was written as having spent his formative years in the U.S.
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Stachel, whose TV credits include Law & Order: SVU and Billions, was to have played Tarek, who in the film speaks with a noticeable accent. The stage production stars David Hyde Pierce in the role of the college professor and Alysha Deslorieux as Zainab. The new musical, written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Next to Normal team of Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey, with a book by Kwame Kwei-Armah and direction by Tony-winning Daniel Sullivan, is based on the 2007 film of the same name in which a white college professor visits New York for a conference and befriends immigrant couple Tarek and Zainab (from Syria and Senegal, respectively).
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