In the Body of the World
Opening Night: February 6, 2018
Closing: March 25, 2018
Theater: City Center Mainstage
While working with women suffering from the ravages of war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ensler was stunned by a life-threatening diagnosis. Told with her signature brand of humor, Ensler’s personal journey uncovers surprising connections between her body and the earth and how illness can be both transformative and transcendent.
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February 6, 2018
Eve Ensler has a word she wants you to get comfortable with. No, not that one. Her remarkably successful play “The Vagina Monologues,” first seen Off Off Broadway in 1996 and then pretty much all over the world except where it was banned, helped normalize the frank discussion of women’s sexuality (and anatomy) onstage. It also fostered and financed a project called V-Day, which has raised tens of millions of dollars for antiviolence organizations. But the new word Ms. Ensler wants you to embrace — a word that is the subject of her play “In the Body of the World,” which opened on Tuesday in a Manhattan Theater Club production — is not so lovable. It’s “tumor.”
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