WISH YOU WERE HERE by San Toossi, directed by Sivan Battat. Yale Repertory Theatre, October 5–28, 2023.
It’s 1978 and protests are breaking out across Iran, encroaching on the suburb where a tight-knit circle of girlfriends plans weddings, trades dirty jokes, and tries to hang onto a sense of normalcy. But as the forces of revolution escalate, each woman must choose whether to join a wave of emigration or to remain in their country, where the future is uncertain. With breathtaking humanity and cutting wit, 2023 Pulitzer Prize winner Sanaz Toossi chronicles a decade of life during and after war, as best friends forever become friends long lost—scattered and searching for home.
Production support for Wish You Were Here is provided by Yale’s Binger Center for New Theatre.
Wish You Were Here is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. concordtheatricals.com
