Tala Ashe Reflects on Broadway’s ‘English’ and Its Impact

“My nervous system is definitely in recovery mode,” says Tala Ashe, in the days immediately following the end of her Broadway show “English.” “I think with a sprinkle of some denial that it’s over, and some grief around that.” After a hit run off-Broadway, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play made its transfer to Broadway with a limited run that ended earlier this month. Ashe, who starred in the five-person show as Elham, is still getting used to the fact that her evenings are now free.   Leading up to the show’s final nights, Ashe says she and her fellow cast members each took turns being the emotional one for the night. “The thing that was most important, I would say to all of us, was that we just continued to honor the integrity of the show and that our feelings were our feelings, and that actually had very little to do with the show, and that we had to just tell the story that we had worked so hard with so much nuance to create and to build together,” Ashe says.  “English” is set in an Iranian classroom and tells the story of four adults trying to learn English for their proficiency exam. Sanaz Toossi first

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