11/28/2023 0 Comments Disgraced play sparknotes![]() Amir follows, enraged to have learned he was passed up for the partnership, and Jory asks Isaac and Emily to tell the truth of what is going on between them. Just then Jory comes in and catches them in a moment of intimacy. He tries to kiss her again, and Emily doesn't lean in or away. Isaac then tells her about Jory's promotion. Isaac mentions when he and Emily slept together on a recent trip to London. Left alone with Emily, Isaac confronts Emily about Amir's bad behavior and tries to convince her that she will inevitably leave him. Amir apologizes for his behavior and says he is going to get champagne. Jory wonders if Amir already knows the news that she made partner instead of him. While the hosts are off stage, Isaac calls Amir a closet jihadist. He accuses Isaac of having similar feelings in regards to Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory, despite Isaac being critical of Israel.Įmily makes Amir follow her to the kitchen. He says these are feelings of which he has to work hard to rid himself. He explains that he knew it was an atrocity, but some deeply inscribed part of himself was proud because it meant that for once the West was not winning. Amir admits that he felt a blush of pride when the Twin Towers fell on 9/11. ![]() ![]() Amir rejects Isaac's and Emily's well-meaning appreciation of the sacred power of Islamic traditional art and architecture, saying that Islam has nothing to do with art and everything to do with an outdated, brutal way of life that foregrounds resentment. A discussion of Emily's work leads to hostility between Isaac and Amir, descending into disagreements over interpretations of the Quran. During dinner, Isaac reveals that Emily will be included in the new show. Emily arrives with groceries and reminds him that Isaac and his wife Jory are coming to dinner. In the third scene, Amir drinks angrily on the terrace, smashing a whiskey glass. Emily argues that her use of traditional Islamic forms is not an ironic appropriation but an acknowledgment of Islam's historical influence on Western culture. Isaac and Emily discuss the possibility of her being included in a show he is curating. Emily tries to reassure Amir that the article will not hamper Amir's expected promotion to partner at his legal firm.Īmir exits when Isaac, a friend of the couple's and a curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, arrives. Listening to the article about the defiant imam's trial, Amir is frustrated that the article quotes him in a way that makes it seem like he is the imam's attorney, obscuring the fact that Amir was only there to support the imam. In the second scene, Amir and Emily read the New York Times aloud. Amir rejects the idea, citing his disavowal of Islam, but Emily convinces Amir to support the man. He asks Amir to support at trial, but not represent, an imam who is being tried for allegedly raising money to fund terrorism. The incident inspires Emily to paint a portrait of Amir based on Diego Velázquez's Portrait of Juan de Pareja, which depicts a former slave who serves as the artist's apprentice.Īmir's cousin Abe, who has changed his name from Hussein to obscure his Muslim background, visits the apartment. The couple discusses the night before, when Amir was mistreated by a racist waiter. Emily, a white painter whose art takes inspiration from Islamic tradition, sketches a portrait of her husband Amir, an American-born lawyer who has renounced his Muslim background. A one-act play comprising four scenes, Disgraced opens with a married couple in their Upper East Side apartment.
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