"THE GOOD BODY"
By Eve Ensler
(author of the hit play "The Vagina Monologues")

Synopsis:

Botox, bulimia, breast implants: Eve Ensler, author of the international sensation The Vagina Monologues, is back, this time to rock our view of what it means to have a "good body".

"In the fifties", Eve writes, girls were "pretty, perky. They wore girdles and waist cinchers….In recent years, good girls climb the corporate ladder, go to the gym, wear pointy, painful shoes…..They don't eat too much. They don't eat at all. They stay perfect. They stay thin. I could never be good."

THE GOOD BODY talks about our tortured relationships with our weight, body image and self-acceptance - with voices of women from L.A. to Kabul: A young Latina candidly critiques her humiliating "spread", a stubborn layer of fat that she calls "a second pair of thighs". The wife of a plastic surgeon recounts being systematically reconstructed, inch by inch, by her "perfectionist husband". An aging magazine executive, still haunted by her mother's long-ago criticism, describes her desperate pursuit of youth as she relentlessly does sit-ups.

Along the way, Eve also introduces us to women who have found a hard-won peace with their bodies: an African mother who celebrates each individual body as a sign of nature's diversity, and Indian woman who delights in her curves. Then there is the veiled Afghani woman who is willing to risk imprisonment for a taste of ice-cream. These are just few of the inspiring stories woven through Eve's global journey from obsession to enlightenment. Ultimately, these monologues become a personal wake-up call for us to love the "good bodies" we inhabit.

What the critics have said about the play in London and on Broadway:

"forthrightly funny, bristling with wisecracks and exotically harvested snippets of wisdom"
	(The New York Times)
"Fascinating, engaging and scaldingly funny!"
	(Philadelphia Inquirer)
"This good humoured, uplifting show is not merely a hoot, it is an inspiration!"
	(Newsday)
"Utterly captivating and hilarious!"
	(Oakland Tribune)
"Fascinating, funny and shrewd - with a female whoop of joyful recognition, but of equal interest to men and women"
	(New York Post)
"Passionate, funny, frank, revealing - and even shocking"
	(San Francisco Chronicle)
"Insightful, entertaining and hilarious!"
	(Associated Press)

*Produced with special permission by Eve Ensler  www.thegoodbody.com