Disgraced

a blistering exploration of social and racial prejudices

Ayad Akhtar's 2013 Pulitzer Prize winner, and 2015 Tony Award nominated play about social prejudices explodes onto the stage at the Guthrie Stage. The play follows an ill-fated dinner party held by Pakistan-American lawyer Amir and his wife Emily. The evening starts off pleasantly enough, however as the drinks flow and the clock ticks, racial tensions come to the fore and culminate in a drastic action taken by Amir which will have serious consequences for himself.

The main themes of the play are centered on the struggles faced by Muslim-American citizens after the events of 9/11, even in socially upward backgrounds. The four people at the dinner table all come from very different backgrounds themselves, and trouble starts as discussion turns to politics and religion, when the mood quickly becomes heated, culminating in a heated outburst from the host, who struggles to find his place in this Islamophobic world.