Arts & Entertainmen

Eve Ensler adopts the:;::
role of 11 other women

The Good Body.

Vagina
Monologues
creator
brings her
one-woman
show to
Music Hall.

I Naomi Pfefferman
Jewish Journal of
I Greater Los Angeles

Navel Gazing
With Eve Ensler

ome years ago, play-
wright-performer
Eve Ensler became
mortified by her not-so-
flat, post-40s belly. She
starved herself, hired a
trainer and watched late-
night Ab-Roller infomer-
cials. She compulsively
worked the treadmill and
even fantasized about con-
tracting a parasite.
No matter that Ensler
had authored the taboo-
busting feminist global hit
The Vagina Monologues.
Her preoccupation with
her midriff eroded her con-
fidence and her ability to
work.
"I couldn't understand
how I, a radical activist,
could spend this much time
thinking about my stom-
ach," she says.
Hungry for answers, she
created a new solo show,
called The Good Body,
which dissects her angst
and that of similarly
obsessed women. It comes
to Detroit's Music Hall
Center for the Performing
Arts Feb. 15-19.

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