
Sakina's Restaurant
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Narrated by:
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Aasif Mandvi
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By:
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Aasif Mandvi
Sakina's Restaurant breathes new life into an age old story: the emotive tale of an immigrant coming to New York in pursuit of the American dream.
Actor, comedian, and writer Aasif Mandvi originally performed his Obie Award-winning solo show off-Broadway 20 years ago. This past October, the iconic play was reimagined and produced by Audible for a limited run at Minetta Lane Theatre in Manhattan's West Village.
Recorded for an Audible-exclusive audience, listeners can forgo the price of admission and embark on the cross-cultural journey with Mandvi. Listen in as he seamlessly transitions from character to character, impersonating a teenage girl as she grapples with coming of age in New York under the roof of traditional Indian parents, and an older male restauranteur clinging to his heritage with the same remarkable ease.
Entertaining and intimate, this story of what it means to be an American was written long before immigration became an intensely polarizing issue. Today, it’s revival feels necessary if not urgent, and certainly as honest and refreshing as ever.
Written and performed by Aasif Mandvi.
Directed by Kimberly Senior.
Originally directed and developed by Kimberly Hughes.
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About the Creator
Former Daily Show correspondent Aasif Mandvi is a Peabody Award-winning producer, actor, writer, and comedian. Mandvi's feature films include Mother’s Day, Million Dollar Arm, The Internship, The Proposal, Premium Rush, Music and Lyrics, and Ghost Town. He co-wrote and starred in the feature film, Today’s Special and the web series Halal in the Family. Television credits include Younger, Shut Eye, A Series of Unfortunate Events, and Blue Bloods. Mandvi wrote, produced, and starred in HBO’s The Brink, opposite Jack Black. Stage credits include Sakina’s Restaurant (Obie Award), the lead role in the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Disgraced at Lincoln Center (Lucille Lortell nomination), the Broadway revival of Oklahoma, and Brigadoon at NY City Center. Mandvi is also the author of a book of personal essays entitled No Land’s Man, published by Chronicle Books.
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There are no chapters and only one narrator. He tries his best to alter his voice, but two slightly different pitches or tones of voice just don't cut it for me. The story is nothing but dialogue, and when there's a sudden scene change, character change, and they're trying to use conversation to artificially indicate the characters' actions... eesh.
The end result was whiplash, over and over as I tried to understand the who, and what, and where until I gave up.
Not my taste
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Just Never Clicked
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I wish there would have been different narrators for each of the characters instead of having one narrator for the entire story.
An incredible story
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not too good
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not what I was expecting
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whispers unheard
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A little hard to follow
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Entertaining Listen
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Ok but dated
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Separate characters
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