Iran-US relations, from a woman’s perspective
In the mid-1970s, Kathleen Cahill spent 10 months teaching English to young women in the Shah’s Iran. Watching the Green Revolution led her to read about the modern history of the country and its tortured relations with the United States. Her play, “The Persian Quarter,’’ an East Coast premiere opens Sept. 15 at Merrimack Repertory Theatre, skips through time to touch on CIA operations in the…