9 Parts Of Desire Book

THE STORY: 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.Winner of a 2005 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Special Commendation and Lucille Lortel Award for Best Solo Show. ‚¬¦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. - The New Yorker. 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. ‚¬¦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. The female half of Iraq has come to America. - Gloria Steinem.