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The Good Body
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Nov 15, 2004
Closed Dec 19, 2004
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

The Good Body, a new play written and performed by Eve Ensler, the author of the international phenomenon The Vagina Monologues, comes to Broadway!

The Vagina Monologues challenged notions of acceptable topics in theater and became the impetus for a worldwide movement to combat violence towards women. Now, in her new show, Eve Ensler turns her unique eye to the rest of the female form. Whether undergoing Botox injections or living beneath burkhas, women of all cultures and backgrounds feel compelled to change the way they look in order to fit in, to be accepted, to be "good." Merging these cross-cultural explorations with her own personal journey to come to terms with her "less-than-flat, post-40s stomach," Ensler has created The Good Body. Peter Askin directs.

There will be twenty-six $25 tickets available per performance through lottery (names are collected 2½ hours prior to each performance; 2 hours prior to each performance, names will be called; 2 tickets maximum per person with valid photo ID).

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:



Booth Theatre
222 W 45th St
New York, NY 10036


WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

Plastic surgeons and diet developers worldwide must be quaking at the news that Eve Ensler has composed a monologue called The Good Body, which -- for anyone not able to get to New York's Booth Theatre anytime soon -- is also available in book form. Ensler is the writer-actor who encouraged women with her bold theater piece The Vagina Monologues to discuss genitalia without shame or embarrassment and, as one of the consequences, has raised at least $25 million for V-Day, the global movement to stop violence against women and girls. If The Good Body has anything like the effect Ensler's previous work had, women may come to a new appreciation of themselves and their bodies, leaving liposuctio[...]


Reviewed by David Finkle on Nov 16, 2004

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