9 parts of desire
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Images and text compiled by dramaturg Kati Lyles in support of the production of Heather Raffo's 9 Parts of Desire currently in rehearsal at the Ira Brind School of Theater Arts at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.TRANSCRIPT
Heather Raffo’s
9 Parts of Desire
Visual File by Kathryn M. Lyles
Music: “I Asked When” by Brett Dennen
Representative Artist: Layla Attar
The past is never dead.
It is not even past.
Faulkner
It is no measure of health
to be well adjusted
to a profoundly sick society.
Krishnamurti
Even after I have forgotten what year it is,my middle name,and the meaning of money,
I will still carry in my pocketthe small coin of that moment,minted in the kingdomthat we pace through every day.
Billy Collins
Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon.
She will need her sisterhood. Gloria Steinem
pity this busy monster, manunkind,
e.e. cummings
If you're not outraged,
you're not paying attention.
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
Walt Whitman
If it comes with a price; it is not free.
If there’s consequences; it’s not free.
prof. ward chruchill (on free speech)
the stars began to burnthrough the sheets of clouds,and there was a new voicewhich you slowlyrecognized as your own,that kept you companyas you strode deeper and deeperinto the world,determined to dothe only thing you could do --determined to savethe only life you could save.
Mary Oliver
I fear it hereand I love it here
I cannot stop what I am hereeither I shall die
or I shall live a ransom for all the daughters of Savagery.
She called it Savagery when you love like you cannot breathe.
mullaya