Obie-Award winning author of The Vagina Monologues and famed playwright, Eve Ensler, will speak on Thursday, February 17, at 8:00 p.m., at Garrison Theater at the Scripps College Performing Arts Center. This lecture is free and open to the public on a first-come, first served basis. A pre-lecture reception and book signing at 5:30 p.m. and dinner at 6:30 p.m. in the Hampton Room of the Malott Commons are also available for $25 per person. Please call the Malott Commons Office at (909) 607-9372 for reservations and information. Deadline for dinner reservations is Friday, February 11 by 5 p.m.
Ensler is devoted to stopping violence against women and envisions a planet in which women and girls are free to thrive. Her latest work, The Good Body, opened at the Booth Theater on Broadway in November 2004 to rave reviews. In The Good Body, Ensler explores the experiences of women of all cultures and backgrounds who feel compelled to change the way they look in order to fit with their particular culture. The monologues represent women from Bombay to Beverly Hills. Interspersed throughout are riotous excerpts from Ensler’s lifelong dialogue with her belly—a sassy and conniving antagonist in its own right.
Her most famous work, The Vagina Monologues, has been translated into more than 35 languages and runs in theaters all over the world. The Vagina Monologues is based on Ensler’s interviews with more than 200 women and celebrates women’s sexuality and strength. Ensler’s experience in performing The Vagina Monologues inspired her to create V-Day, a global movement to stop violence against women and girls. Her performance in The Vagina Monologues was documented in the HBO original documentary of the play.
Her other plays include Necessary Targets, Convictions, Lemonade, The Depot, Floating Rhoda and the Glue Man, and Extraordinary Measures. She also was executive producer of the documentary, What I Want My Words to Do to You. The film premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival, where it received the “Freedom of Expression” award. Her two upcoming works are titled V-World and I am an Emotional Creature.