English,” Sanaz Toossi’s strikingly thoughtful and moving new Broadway play at the Roundabout Theatre, lexplores what you give up when you express yourself in a tongue not

The other choice is chaos — let the students run the classroom and no one learns. “English” explores the tyranny, but fudges the chaos. Left unexplained is how one incompetent student eventually aces her TOEFL. Also weakly explained is why another student, proficient in English, takes this class.