Live Theatre Workshop presents 9 Parts of Desire

 

From: Frankenfield [mailto:publicity@livetheatreworkshop.org]
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 2:39 PM
Subject: Press Release 9 Parts of Desire at Live Theatre Workshop

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Live Theatre Workshop proudly presents

 

9 PARTS OF DESIRE

By Heather Raffo

 

Directed by Glen Coffman

 

Featuring Lori Hunt

 

This Off-Broadway hit was inspired by the playwright's trip to a modern art museum in Baghdad in August 1993, and it 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 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 a country overshadowed by war.

 

Winner of a 2005 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Special Commendation and Lucille Lortel Award for Best Solo Show.

 

"…a triumph…thrilling… writing...marked with wit and by a scrupulous attention to the details of character." ~ The New Yorker

"...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 naïve, seductive and standoffish. But they cohere to form a powerful collective portrait of suffering and endurance." ~ NY Times

 

October 16-November 15, 2014

Preview Performances: Thursday, Oct 16 & Friday, Oct 17 at 7:30 PM

Opening Night Performance: Saturday, Oct 18 at 7:30 PM

Final Thursday Performance: Thursday, Nov 13 at 7:30 PM

Regular Performances: Friday and Saturday nights at 7:30 PM

with Sunday Matinees at 3:00 PM

 

Preview & Final Thursday Tickets: $14

General Admission: $20

Students, Seniors 62+, & Military: $18

 

Running Time: 90min

 

To make your reservation call (520) 327-4242

For more information go to www.livetheatreworkshop.org

LIVE THEATRE WORKSHOP * 5317 E. Speedway * Tucson, AZ 85712

Located on the north side of Speedway between Rosemont and Craycroft

Presented by special arrangement with Dramatist's Play Services

 

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