The Vagina Monologues

Ensler, Eve

ISBN 10: 0553714686 ISBN 13: 9780553714685

Casa editrice: Bantam Audio, 2002

Riassunto

Drawing on her conversations with hundreds of women about their genitalia, the author presents a collection--by turns hilarious, irreverent, and poignant--of performance pieces from her award-winning one-woman show which give voice to real women's deepest fantasies and fears, and ultimately celebrate female sexuality in all its complexity and mystery. Performed by Eve Ensler. Reissue.

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Recensione:

"Women have entrusted Eve with their most intimate experiences, from sex to birthing. . . . I think readers, men as well as women, will emerge from these pages feeling more free within themselves—and about each other."         —Gloria Steinem

"Eve Ensler is the Pied Piper. She is leading women and the world to a different
consciousness of the essence of women."         —Gillian Anderson

"I feel my life has changed. You don't just hook up with Eve, you become part of her crusade. There's a corps of us who are Eve's army."         —Glenn Close

"The monologues are part of Eve Ensler's crusade to wipe out the shame and embarrassment that many women still associate with their bodies or their sexuality. . . . They are both a celebration of women's sexuality and a condemnation of its violation."
                —The New York Times

"Spellbinding, funny, and almost unbearably moving. . . . Written with a bluntness that is nevertheless intensely lyrical, it is both a work of art and an incisive piece of cultural history, a poem and a polemic, a performance and a balm and a benediction."         —Variety

"Frank, humorous and moving . . . a compelling rhapsody of the female essence. Ultimately, Ensler achieves something extraordinary."         —Chicago Tribune

L'autore:

EVE ENSLER's Obie Award-winning play, The Vagina Monologues, currently enjoying a sold-out run at Off-Broadway's Westside Theatre and playing in theaters all over the world, initiated V-Day, a global movement to stop violence against women. Ensler's performance of The Vagina Monologues will be seen on HBO in 2001. Her play Necessary Targets has had benefit performances on Broadway, at the National Theater in Sarajevo, and at the Kennedy Center, and will open in New York this year. Other plays include Lemonade, The Depot, Floating Rhoda and the Glue Man, Extraordinary Measures, Ladies, and Scooncat. She is working on a new book and play, The Good Body. Ensler received a 1999 Guggenheim Fellowship in Playwriting. She lives in New York City with her partner, Ariel Orr Jordan.

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• Editore: Bantam Audio
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0553714686
• ISBN 13: 9780553714685
• Rilegatura: Audio CD