Eve Ensler ( born Eve Ensler ; born May 25, 1953) is an American feminist , writer, and playwright best known for his play Monologues of the Vagina (1996).
| Yves Ensler | |
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| English Eve ensler | |
 Ensler in 2011. | |
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| Occupation | playwright |
| Genre | drama |
| Language of Works | English |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship [d] ( 2011 ) |
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Biography
She claimed to have been physically and sexually abused by her father in childhood. In 1975 she graduated from Middlebury College , where she studied poetry and drama. In 1978, she married Richard McDermott and became the adoptive mother of his teenage son. In 1988, the marriage broke up, but Ensler maintained a trusting relationship with stepson Dylan , who later became a famous actor [4] . He introduced his stepmother to his teacher at the New York Theater School of the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater, Joan Woodward , who directed the play by Yves Ensler Coming From Nothing (about Coming From Nowhere) about a girl trying to remember her childhood. Woodward also staged Ensler’s next work, a play for one actress The Depot (“The Warehouse”) on the issue of nuclear disarmament ( Shirley Knight played in that play) [5] .
She edited the Central Park magazine, staged plays in the New York modernist theater, which prepares performances in certain specially selected places, but never in the premises of a theater ( promenade theater ) [6] .
In 1996, she received the Obie Theater Award for her play Monologues of the Vagina, based on interviews with 200 women around the world who have been subjected to various forms of violence. The play was translated into 45 languages and was performed in more than 130 countries of the world. At the same time, even in the USA, her productions sometimes provoked a controversial reaction due to the painting of non-traditional forms of sexuality and prejudice against men [7] .
Encouraged by the success, Ensler launched the V-Day feminist campaign in 1998, during which she turned the proceeds from productions of world-famous plays to fight violence against women (over the course of ten years, $ 70 million was raised) [8] .
In 1999, she received a Guggenheim scholarship in the field of dramatic art [9] .
On June 11, 2011, Ensler received at the Tony Award Ceremony , designed to encourage theater workers who made significant contributions to humanitarian, social, and charitable foundations. [10]
Selected Works
Pieces
- Sentence / Conviction
- Lemonade
- Warehouse / The Depot
- / Floating Rhoda and the Glue Man
- Extraordinary Measures
- Vagina Monologues
- The Good Body
- Necessary Targets
- Therapy / The Treatment
- Emotional Creature
- / OPC
Books
- Vagina Monologues
- In the Body of the World: A Memoir
- I am an Emotional Creature: the Secret Life of Girls Around the World
- Finally, in danger: the loss of security in our obsessed world / Insecure at Last: Losing it in our Security Obsessed World
- The Good Body
- Necessary Targets
- Vagina Warriors
- / A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer
Movies
- Until the Violence Stops (2004)
- What I would like my words to give you: voices from a women's maximum security prison / What I Want my Words to do to you: Voices From Inside a Women's Maximum Security Prison (2003)
- The Vagina Monologues (2002)
- No More Fear: Stop Violence Against Women (interview) / Fear No More: Stop Violence Against Women (2002) - interviewee
Notes
- ↑ Internet Movie Database - 1990.
- ↑ SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ Internet Broadway Database - 2000.
- ↑ Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World, 2011 , pp. 478-479.
- ↑ Eve Ensler . The Kennedy Center. Date of treatment July 23, 2017.
- ↑ Feminist Writings from Ancient Times to the Modern World, 2011 , p. 665.
- ↑ Feminist Writings from Ancient Times to the Modern World, 2011 , pp. 665-667.
- ↑ Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World, 2011 , p. 479.
- ↑ Eve Ensler . John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Date of treatment July 23, 2017.
- ↑ Marianne Schnall. Exclusive Interview With Eve Ensler, Recipient of the 2011 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award . Huffington Post (June 13, 2011). Date of treatment July 23, 2017.
Literature
- Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World / Mary Zeiss Stange, Carol K. Oyster, Jane E. Sloan. - SAGE, 2011 .-- Vol. 1.- ISBN 978-14-1297-685-5 .
- Feminist Writings from Ancient Times to the Modern World: A Global Sourcebook and History [2 volumes : A Global Sourcebook and History] / Tiffany K. Wayne Ph.D .. - ABC-CLIO, 2011 .-- 718 p. - ISBN 978-03-1334-581-4 .
Links
- Topic: Eve Ensler UPI Date of treatment July 21, 2017.
- Eve Ensler V-day. Date of treatment July 23, 2017.