9 Parts of Desire (2010)
Produced by
Seventh Stage Theatre Productions
Playwright: Heather Raffo
Director: Kelly Straughan
Venue
The Great Hall – Longboat Hall
Run
May 19th, 2010 – May 23rd, 2010
Synopsis
9 Parts of Desire is told from the perspective of nine very different Iraqi women, each character speaks intimately to the audience, who becomes a trusted friend. A sexy painter, a radical Communist, a young girl obsessed with Justin Timberlake, an Iraqi American desperate to contact her family in the middle-east; each character struggles with a desire for freedom – from Iraq, from lovers, from friends, from parents. (www.ticketweb.ca)
Cast
| Aviva Armour-Ostroff | Doctor |
| Christine Aubin-Khalifah | Layal |
| Toni Ellwand | Nana |
| Lili Francks | Umm Ghada |
| Deborah Grover | Huda |
| Maryem Tollar | Mullaya |
| Brittany Kay | Iraqi Girl |
| Anusree Roy | Amal |
| Melissa-Jane Shaw | American |
| Amir Al-Azraki | Voice of The Uncle |
Creative Team
| Heather Raffo | Playwright |
| Kelly Straughan | Director |
| Rosa Laborde | Assistant Director |
| Maryem Tollar | Composer |
| Robin Fisher | Set Designer |
| Robin Fisher | Costume Designer |
| Lindsay R. Forde | Set Designer |
| Lindsay R. Forde | Costume Designer |
| Michelle Ramsay | Lighting Designer |
| Verne Good | Sound Designer |
Music
| Maryem Tollar | Musician |
Production
| Melissa-Jane Shaw | Producer |
| Briana Brown | Associate Producer |
| Kristina McNamee | Production Manager |
| Eric Hopkins | Stage Manager |
| Melissa Joakim | Assistant Stage Manager |
| Michael Armstrong | Dialect Coach |
| Amir Al-Azraki | Iraqi Cultural Liason |
| Kajal Aziz | Iraqi Cultural Liason |
| Michelle Bailey | Production Photographs |
| Jaime Woo | Promo Video |
| Chelsea Conway | Rehearsal Video Footage |
| Erika Maaskant | Online Networking |
| Debra Goldblatt | Publicist |
| Ashley Ballantyne | Publicist |
| Alana De Guerre | Publicist |
