page_title: Nine Parts of Desire (play)
hierarchical_section_title: Nine Parts of Desire (play)
caption_attribution_description: English: Poster of MET's production of 9 Parts of Desire, designed by Fishelson (2004).
context_page_description: 9 Parts of Desire is a play written by Heather Raffo.
  In the original version, a single performer plays all nine characters. Heather Raffo herself has acted in productions of 9 Parts of Desire. Some productions opt to use multiple actors. Joanna Settle directed the play's first productions.
  Michael Billington of The Guardian wrote that the play's "great virtue" "is that it not only deals with the plight of Iraqi women but forces us to confront the moral issues of war." Melissa Rose Bernardo of Entertainment Weekly wrote that "What Raffo unearths, beneath the aforementioned Saddam-inflicted atrocities, is the universal and very basic human trait of insecurity." Billington added that "The play raises a difficult question, especially for those opposed to the recent war: what should the west have done about Iraq?"
context_section_description: 9 Parts of Desire (Arabic: تسعة اجزاء من الرغبة‎) is a play written by Heather Raffo.
  In the original version, a single performer plays all nine characters. Heather Raffo herself has acted in productions of 9 Parts of Desire. Some productions opt to use multiple actors. Joanna Settle directed the play's first productions.
  Michael Billington of The Guardian wrote that the play's "great virtue" "is that it not only deals with the plight of Iraqi women but forces us to confront the moral issues of war." Melissa Rose Bernardo of Entertainment Weekly wrote that "What Raffo unearths, beneath the aforementioned Saddam-inflicted atrocities, is the universal and very basic human trait of insecurity." Billington added that "The play raises a difficult question, especially for those opposed to the recent war: what should the west have done about Iraq?"
caption: Poster from the Manhattan Ensemble Theatre production, 2005
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