Necessary Targets: A Story of Women and War
by: Eve Ensler
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Dewey Decimal Number: 812.54
EAN: 9780375756030
ISBN: 0375756035
Label: Villard
Manufacturer: Villard
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Date: January 23, 2001
Publisher: Villard
Sales Rank: 231168
Studio: Villard
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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.
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- A Mother Goddess for A Care-Hungry WorldI was fortunate enough to see this play performed live, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. I was already an Eve ... Read More
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- Words can never describe war, but Ensler comes closeMy first read left me disappointed because I thought it was a flimsy account of war, but finally Necessary ... Read More
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- The untold horrors of war - told hereI was introduced to Eve Ensler through "The Vagina Monologues." That book is one of the most moving and vital ... Read More
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- Of women and warEve Ensler's "Necessary Targets" is a thought-provoking play. In her introduction, Ensler notes that, in 1993, ... Read More
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- Eve Ensler for PresidentEve Ensler has struck again & I hope to find more of her stuff soon. Although not as good as "The Vagina Monologues" ... Read More
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