Marc Miller takes a look at In the Body of the World:
Vulnerability doesn't come easily to Eve Ensler. Neither does holding back. The performance artist, activist, and author of The Vagina Monologues likes to be in control, and likes to share everything, even when she's sharing autobiographical moments of not being in control. Which In the Body of the World is packed with. Her new monologue at Manhattan Theatre Club Stage 1, based on her 2014 memoir, recounts the two defining crises of her life over the past decade. One was attending to the raped and otherwise broken women of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where she worked to help build City of Joy, a refuge and treatment center for them. While there, in 2007, the other crisis occurred: She found out she had uterine cancer. . . . |
