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9 Parts of Desire at Portland Center Stage

Dates: (3/14/2020 - 4/26/2020 )

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Portland Center Stage


128 NW Eleventh Avenue
Portland,OR

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This Off Broadway hit was inspired by the playwright's trip to a modern art museum in Baghdad in August 1993, and details the lives of nine Iraqi women that span the decades between the first and second Gulf Wars and occupation. Described by The New Yorker as “an example of how art can remake the world,” it is a portrait of the extraordinary (and ordinary) lives of a cross-section of Iraqi women: a sexy painter, a radical Communist, doctors, exiles, wives and lovers. This work delves into many conflicting aspects of what it means to be a woman in a country overshadowed by war.

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March 30, 2020

In response to the public health pandemic, Portland Center Stage at The Armory has canceled the final two productions in the 2019-2020 season; the world premiere of Howards End and Cambodian Rock Band.

Portland Center Stage Announces COVID-19 Performance Cancellation
Portland Center Stage Announces COVID-19 Performance Cancellation
March 12, 2020

In keeping with Oregon's temporary public health restrictions on public gatherings, Portland Center Stage at The Armory will cancel or reschedule all performances and large community events through Apr. 8.

Photo Flash: First Look at Nora el Samahy in 9 PARTS OF DESIRE
Photo Flash: First Look at Nora el Samahy in 9 PARTS OF DESIRE
March 10, 2020

Heather Raffo's critically acclaimed, 9 Parts of Desire, will open this month at Portland Center Stage at The Armory, starring Nora el Samahy.

Heather Raffo's Critically Acclaimed Portrait Of Nine Iraqi Women, 9 PARTS OF DESIRE To Open At The Armory
Heather Raffo's Critically Acclaimed Portrait Of Nine Iraqi Women, 9 PARTS OF DESIRE To Open At The Armory
February 06, 2020

Heather Raffo's critically acclaimed, 9 Parts of Desire, will open this March at Portland Center Stage at The Armory, starring Nora el Samahy. An intimate and complex examination of the extraordinary (and ordinary) lives of nine Iraqi women, this remarkable solo work offers a meditation on what it means to be a woman in a country overshadowed by war. Based on Raffo's interviews with real women during the reign and fall of Saddam Hussein, Raffo weaves nine utterly distinct voices into a tapestry of humanity, love, and endurance in the face of oppression.

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Portland Center Stage at The Armory announced their 2019-2020 season, the first that new Artistic Director Marissa Wolf has planned for the company.

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