Toronto Star: Stories that must be told
19 May
by Robert Crew
The key word, as someone says at the start of the play, is survival.
Whether you’ve fled Saddam Hussein’s Iraq for fear of your life, are working there as a doctor, a painter or trying desperately to sell goods by the side of the road, it’s all a matter of weathering the storm, of living as best you can and hoping against hope that things will improve.
In Heather Raffo’s harrowing, 80-minute play called 9 Parts of Desire, we meet nine women whose experiences weave a tapestry of fear, terror and love. (It is not accidental that a mosaic figures is a major symbol in the play).
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