The Art of Listening: 5Q4 Sarab Kamoo

Sarab Kamoo creates women who seem to have lived long before they appeared in the plays they inhabit and who go on living well after in the memories of those who have encountered them from seats in the house. Her performances in the first nine roles I noticed her in—among them a radical Communist, a sexy painter, a young girl, and a doctor, all Iraqi–would have blown me away even if I hadn’t watched her seamlessly transform from one to another in Ed Nahhat’s production of Nine Parts of Desire. I caught that at the Performance Network Theatre (PNT) in Ann Arbor, MI, where she is currently in David Wolber’s production of <a title="blocked::http://www.detnews.com/article/20101014/ENT01/10140312/1033/â

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Davi Napoleon is a theater historian and journalist who writes widely about the arts. Schoolbiz, her column on theater training, ran for four years in TheaterWeek, and her features on design have been ...read more

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