John Tanasychuk Detroit Free Press
-January 8th, 1999

All About

Eve Ensler is an award-winning
playwright, poet, activist and
screenwriter, and probably best-
known for her play The Vagina
Monologues, a series of stories in
which women talk about the most
secret part of their bodies.
"Ensler reminds us that art is
often at its best when it deals with
subjects that are not supposed to be
discussed," wrote Finan O'Toole in
a review of The Vagina Monologues
in the New York Daily News.
"It all depends, of course, on the
intelligence, integrity and compas-
sion with which that subject is
approached. Using these qualities,
Ensler has created not just one of
the best shows in New York, but also
one of the most morally serious."
Eve Ensler: 'At first, women were reluctant
Based on interviews with a
to talk. They were a little shy But once
diverse group of women --- from a
they got going, you couldn't st© p them."
Long Island antique dealer to a
Bosnian refugee — The Vagina
women, Jewish women.
Monologues won a 1997 Obie Award
"At first, women were reluctant
and was nominated for Drama Desk
to talk. They were a little shy. But
and Helen Hayes awards.
once they got going, you couldn't
"I was worried about vaginas. I
stop them."
was worried about what we think
Ensler — married, with a
about vaginas, and even more War-
famous stepson, Dylan McDermott
tied that we don't think about
of The Practice
has been instru-
them," Ensler has said "So I decid-
mental in the success of the V-Day
ed to talk to women about their
movement, founded in 1998 to end
vaginas, to do vagina interviews,
violence against women.
which became vagina monologues.
In two highly successful V-Day
"I talked with hundreds of
benefit performances of The Vagina
women, I talked to old, women,
Monologues in 1998 (in New York)
young women, married women,
and 1999 (in London), Ensler was
single women, lesbians, college pro-
joined on stage by such stars as Cate
fessors, actors, corporate profession-
Blanchette, Winona Ryder, Marisa
als, sex'workers, African American
Tomei, Lily Tomlin, Kate Winslett,
women, Hispanic women, Asian
Melanie Griffith, Calista Flockhart,
American women, Caucasian
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