Necessary Targets: A Story of Women and War (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375756030)

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.

Author: Eve Ensler
ISBN-10: 0375756035
ISBN-13: 9780375756030
Publisher: Villard Books
Language: English
Published: 01/23/2001
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.37lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.30w x 0.38d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 06/01/2000 pg. 96
Library Journal Prepub Alert 10/01/2000 pg. 74
Marie Claire 02/01/2001 pg. 103
Publishers Weekly 01/22/2001 pg. 304
Library Journal 01/01/2001 pg. 106
Library Journal 06/01/2000
Library Journal 10/01/2000