Heather Raffo's 9 Parts of Desire: A Play
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| Rating | : | 4.65 (590 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0810123452 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 96 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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"The voices are a study in contrasts: vivid and subdued, sophisticated and naive, seductive and standoffish. But they cohere to form a powerful collective portrait of suffering and endurance in Nine Parts of Desire, Heather Raffo's impassioned theatrical documentary about the lives of contemporary Iraqi women."--Charles Isherwood, The New York Times
Faye Girsh said Insight into Iraqi women and the war. Beautifully done, can be a one or more woman show. Not easy to do or to listen to, but worthwhile. I saw Heather Raffo do it and it was a knockout.. I liked the play very much - Organized by section - Isabelle Alzado I liked the play very much - Organized by section - different women's characters reflecting an aspect of Iraqi Women - The style is Poetic - profound - and strong -BUT is this inspired form the BOOK of the same title by Geraldine Brooks? It would therefore be an adaptation from the book and yet I have seen no referee to it- Can anybody illuminate this point -? thank you. Powerful, moving and accurate I saw the play performed. It was beautiful. It captures the complexities of being an Arab woman in a time of war. The women are quite familiar and real. It's really amazing how Heather Raffo was able to portray entirely different sides, perspective and ideas that we don't see anywhere else. And yet all of them exist, and many people are struggling with these contradictions and the questions t
This compassionate and heart-breaking work will forever change your view of Iraqi women and the people of the Middle East.. Layal is a sexy and impulsive painter favored by Saddam's regime, breezily bohemian one minute and defensive the next; another woman mourns the death of her family in a 1991 bunker, and another--a blond American of Iraqi descent--painfully recalls a telephone conversation with Baghdad relatives on the eve of the U. invasion. S. Winner, 2007 Chicago Book Clinic Crystal Book Award for Excellence in DesignAs topical as today's newspaper headlines, these rich monologues bring to life nine distinct Iraqi women whose very different stories convey the complex and harrowing reality of being female in modern-day Iraq. Other characters decry the savagery of Saddam Hussein in terrifying detail and express an ambivalent relief at the American presence; still others--like a Bedouin woman searching for love--transcend politics.The title comes from the teachings of the seventh-century imam Ali ibn Abu Talib: "God created sexual desire in ten parts; then he gave nine parts to women and one part to men." Heather Raffo's monologues weave these nine parts into a finely textured, brilliantly colorful tapestry of feminine longing in dire times. Their monologues quic