9 Parts of Desire Extends at Seattle Rep

Due to overwhelming box office success Seattle Repertory Theatre will extend Heather Raffo's 9 Parts of Desire, playing in the Leo K Theatre through April 23rd. Additional performances are Tuesday, April 18, 7:30 pm, Wednesday, April 19, 7:30 pm, Thursday, April 20, 7:30 pm, Friday, April 21, 7:30 pm, Saturday, April 22, 2:00 pm and 7:30 pm and Sunday, April 23, 2:00 pm. Tickets are on sale now and available through the Seattle Repertory Theatre box office seven days a week at (206) 443-2222, toll-free at (877) 900-9285, as well as online at www.seattlerep.org.

Tyranny and war both come with extreme costs, and we often forget who pays. From the outside looking in, it's easy to view a nation's population as some formless group, joined by a shared religion or language. Writer/performer Heather Raffo spent 11 years conducting dozens of interviews on over four continents with Iraqi women. Her resulting "theatrical mosaic" depicts the realities of life in Iraq/>/> both under Saddam Hussein and since his ouster for several of these unique women, whose individual worlds have been frayed and fractured, sometimes beyond repair, by their country's troubled history. While their stories share a theme of survival against shocking odds, Raffo's incisive distillation of their experiences shows us that both oppression and deliverance come with costs that may be too burdensome to bear, and their violent realities transcend something as simple as political polemic. 9 Parts of Desire stars Najla Said, daughter of political activist, Edward Said.

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