It's true: Horizon Theatre doesn't guarantee you a "happy ending" in this one. But wow...the power, the truthfulness, the ... vivid stories that unfold for these 9 women. Perfected on stage by Carolyn Cook, Suehyla El-Attar and Marianne Fraulo, "9 Parts of Desire" takes the audience to Iraq, to London and to New York. All these stories surround Iraq, the war, the history and their loved ones. The set was amazingly done by Tamara McElhannon. The women on stage worked their costumes well to create the several parts they had to play. The brutal honesty of some of the stories was hard to swallow: I mean, women there, without the freedoms that the women in America have? The things they had to do, to put up with, to trade, in order to survive? And then there were the similarities: dealing with the death of family or not knowing if family is alive or not. Special props especially go out to Ms. Suehyla El-Attar for showing her versatility not only as a brilliant writer ("The Perfect Prayer") but also as a convincing and emotionally stimulating actress.
Many kudos to Horizon for another wonderful tale - or 9.
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