Necessary Targets: A Story of Women and War
A Story of Women and War
$33.31
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
15 April 2000
Summary
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 s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375756030 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0375756035 |
| Author: | Eve Ensler |
| Publisher: | Villard Books |
| Imprint: | Villard |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 15 April 2000 |
| Weight: | 168g |
| Dimensions: | 10mm x 135mm x 204mm |
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Critics Review
“Eve Ensler can soar to Rabelaisian heights or move us with quiet compassion… . She may not save the world, but what other playwrights even think of trying?” –Time “A journey into the very human stories behind the headlines, Necessary Targets lets us peer beneath the head scarves of women whom we recognize as our friends, sisters, and daughters. A brave, powerful, and crucial testimony against violence aimed at women as an act of war.” –Meryl Streep
About The Author
Eve Ensler
EVE ENSLER is an award-winning playwright, poet, activist, and screenwriter whose many works for the stage include The Depot, Floating Rhoda and the Glue Man, Extraordinary Measures, Lemonade, Ladies, and, most recently, Necessary Targets, which was performed on Broadway to benefit Bos-nian women refugees. She has presented her off-Broadway hit The Vagina Monologues (winner of the 1997 Obie Award) at theaters and universities around the United States, as well as in Jerusalem, London, and Zagreb. She is currently writing a screenplay on women in prison for Glenn Close at Miramax and a new play
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