Necessary Targets by Eve Ensler

Necessary Targets by Eve Ensler

In her first new work since The Vagina Monologues, her Obie Award-winning smash hit, Eve Ensler tells the story of two American women, a Park Avenue psychiatrist and a human rights worker, who go to Bosnia to help women confront their memories of war and emerge deeply changed themselves. Necessary Targets is a groundbreaking play about women and war--about the violence of dark memories and the enduring resilience of the human spirit.

Melissa, an ambitious young writer, and J.S., a successful but unsatisfied middle-aged psychiatrist, have nothing in common beyond the methods they have been taught to distance themselves from other people. As J.S. begins to feel compassion for the women whose tragedies she has been sent to expose, she turns on Melissa, who finds safety in control. In an unexpected moment of revelation, J.S. and the women she is supposedly treating find a common ground, a place to be taught and a place to learn.

Necessary Targets has been staged in New York by Meryl Streep, Anjelica Huston, and Calista Flockhart, and performed in Sarajevo with Glenn Close and Marisa Tomei.

Eve Ensler is an award-winning playwright and international bestselling author whose writings include The Vagina Monologues, The Good Body, Insecure at Last, and I Am an Emotional Creature, which has now been adapted for the stage as Emotional Creature. She founded V-Day, a global movement to end violence against women and girls that has raised over $90 million for local organizations and activists and inspired the global action One Billion Rising. Ensler splits his time between France and New York City.

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ISBN 13	9780375756030
ISBN 10	0375756035
Title	Necessary Targets
Author	Eve Ensler
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2001-01-23
Number of pages	144
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