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Our critic said “What the play most painfully illustrates is that for women like these—impoverished or politically oppressed—appealing options are nonexistent.”

Instead it helps bring home the horror movie’s big theme about the transcendence of art for oppressed people, including “music so true it can pierce the veil between life and death.”

It doesn’t see the world as a battle between oppressors and the oppressed.

The Sunni-dominated structure was overturned, and members of the Shia majority, previously oppressed, were now eagerly taking their place at the top of the system.

What the play most painfully illustrates is that for women like these—impoverished or politically oppressed—appealing options are nonexistent.