Subversive Theatre

"I have never separated my work as an artist from my work as a human being. I've always put it even more strongly that, to me, my art is always a weapon."

-Paul Robeson
1949

Women of War

By Colin Dabkowski

Eve Ensler's name will forever be associated with her 1996 piece "The Vagina Monologues," the provocative series of stories and anecdotes about female empowerment that has been performed by thousands of theater companies, colleges and community groups around the world.

But Ensler's work goes much deeper, into various books, plays and films, each touching on some aspect of women's stories and experiences.

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MEDIA COVERAGE:
-- Gusto Preview 4/2/10
-- Buffalo News Review 4/13/10

RELATED INFORMATION:
-- Interview with Eve Ensler
-- Historical Notes: Chronology of the Yugoslav Civil War
-- About the Brazen Faced Varlets

Her 2003 play "Necessary Targets," which the Subversive Theater Collective will stage beginning Thursday, takes a hard look at the effects of the protracted civil war in the Balkans on Bosnian women.

The show will feature members of the local troupe Brazen Faced Varlets -- adepts of Ensler's work, especially "The Vagina Monologues" -- and will take place in the Manny Fried Playhouse (255 Great Arrow Ave.).

"When we think of war, we think of it as something that happens to men," Ensler wrote in her introduction to the play. "The focus is on bombs and the immediate destruction that they wreak. But after the bombing, that's when the real war begins."

The show, which is directed by Susan Forbes and stars Jane Cudmore, Lara Haberberger, Kelly Beuth, Jane Cudmore, Heather Fangsrud, Theresa DiMuro-Wilber, Brittany Kucala and Martha Rothkopf, runs through April 30.

For more information, visit www.subversivetheatre.org or call 408-0499.

-Colin Dabkowski

Preview Article in the Buffalo News' weekly arts supplement Gusto Magazine 4/2/10

Women of War