9 Parts of Desire

After my first initial reading of 9 Parts Of Desire I thought “immensely beautiful!” I am not one for Solo Performances, but this play intrigued me from page one, or actually from the authors note. I was so intrigued I went searching for this said painting of “savagery”. Along the way I found a few things you all might be interested in.
http://www.heatherraffo.com/9parts.html
Here is Ms. Raffo’s website with detailed information on her and the play. One of my first thoughts was how one piece of artwork could change the world and how miraculous this trip must have been for her. I found a review quote on her website that summed up my first thoughts.
“9 Parts of Desire is "AN EXAMPLE OF HOW ART CAN REMAKE THE WORLD! In this remarkable one-woman show, Heather Raffo's performance is deft and vivacious; her writing, like her playing, is marked with wit and by a scrupulous attention to the details of character." —The New Yorker.”
I really thought “oh god, a one woman show about a group of people I know nothing about” Her play was and is a very assessable play that will invoke thought for any first time reader.
On the Actors Theatre site where the play was being performed in 2008 by Ms. Raffo, they had some really interesting numbers to go along with the play.
Numbers :
The performance on Thursday, March 20, 2008 will mark the 5th anniversary of the Iraq War.
The cumulative cost of the war is estimated at approximately $474 billion spent as of December 2007.
The Congressional Budget Office has estimated the total cost of the war in Iraq to U.S. taxpayers will be around $1.9 trillion.
Here is the website for the 2008 performance mentioned above if you would like more information.
http://www.atphx.org/index.taf?mnid=performance&ecid=1174472034
They also have a glossary PDF form for all the patrons to make the play just as assessable as it was in the script. Below is the bush mosaic referred to in the play.