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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