9 Parts of Desire

by Heather Raffo

Overview

A portrait of the extraordinary (and ordinary) lives of a whole cross-section of Iraqi women: a sexy painter, a radical communist, doctors, exiles, wives and lovers. This work delves into the many conflicting aspects of what it means to be a woman in the age-old war zone that is Iraq. An unusually timely meditation on the ancient, the modern and the feminine in a country overshadowed by war. 9 PARTS OF DESIRE can be performed as a one-woman show or with a cast of three to nine women.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780822220978
Publisher:	Dramatists Play Service, Incorporated
Publication date:	01/06/2006
Pages:	78
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.50(h) x 0.20(d)

Editorial Reviews

The female half of Iraq has come to America.

Gloria Steinem

...a triumph...thrilling...an example of how art can remake the world...In this remarkable one-woman show, [Heather Raffo's] writing...is marked with wit and by a scrupulous attention to the details of character.

New Yorker

...powerful, impassioned, vivid, memorable...The voices are a study in contrasts: vivid and subdued, sophisticated and na�ve, seductive and standoffish. But they cohere to form a powerful collective portrait of suffering and endurance.

NY Times

It brings us closer to the inner life of Iraq than a thousand slick-surfaced TV reports. Yet [Raffo's] beautifully shaped one-woman play is a play, not a stodgily earnest piece of documentary theater, and therein lies its singular force and compulsion: It is persuasive precisely because it is beautiful.

Wall Street Journal