9 Parts of Desire

From: "will stackman" profwlll@yahoo.com

Subject: Quicktake - "9 Parts of Desire" by Heather Raffo

Date: Sun. Oct. 22, PM

Quicktake on 9 PARTS OF DESIRE

     Heather Raffo's "9 Parts of Desire" is a unique sole show based of interviews with Iraqi women, composited down into 9 distinct characters. While Raffo performs her award-winning piece in Washington DC, Lanna Joffrey takes up the headscarf and burka on the Lyric Stage in Copley Sq. Award-winning director Carmel O'Reilly helps her conjure up these troubled women on a unique thrust unit set created by her frequent collaborator, J. Michael Griggs from Harvard, well lit by the Lyric's own Rob Cordella. Rafael Jaen from Emerson provides a range costume accessories to distinguish between the several woman. There are definite elements of tragedy in this theatrical collage, but these woman forge on, seeking love, seeking security for their families and their country. They range from a elderly leftist exile in London to a Baghdad teenager confined to her house. They all blend into a powerful indictment of the foreign policy blunders which led to the current endless occupation without getting into politics, but concentrating on individual human consequences.

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"9 Parts of Desire" by Heather Raffo, Oct.20 - Nov. 8

Lyric Stage Co. at Copley YWCA

140 Clarendon, (617) 585 - 5678
Lyric Stage Co.