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A New Monologue For Eve Ensler, Re-Enacting Life With Cancer

The playwright and activist behind The Vagina Monologues stars in the new one-woman show In The Body Of The World, which explores her efforts to empower women in Africa amid her own health struggles.
Eve Ensler stars in the new one-woman show <em>In The Body Of The World</em>, an adaptation of her eponymous memoir.

If any feminist walks the walk, it's author, actress and activist Eve Ensler, best known for her play The Vagina Monologues. In 2009, Ensler went to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to help victims of rape and torture create a sanctuary called City of Joy.

That's when her own life got upended.

And we're at the height of it, and it's almost impossible building something in the middle of a

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