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Article: Ensler delivers a gem in 'Vagina Monologues'.(Scene)
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- The Boston Herald
- Article date:
- March 23, 2001
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"The Vagina Monologues" at the Wilbur Theatre, Boston, through April 1.
Eve Ensler begins cautiously.
Dressed in a simple, form-fitting black dress with spaghetti straps, her hair in a girlish pageboy and her feet bare, Ensler looks both vulnerable and wise. Sitting in a red chair in the center of the Wilbur Theatre stage, behind a single microphone, clutching a stack of index cards, it's hard to know whether she'll deliver a lecture on anatomy or a strident call to arms against men.
"I'll bet you were worried," she says. "I was worried, too."
Within minutes Ensler has the audience chuckling over its own trepidation, but, like the ...