Love is EleMENTAL: Eve Ensler performing ‘In The Body of The World’
Join us for GMHP’s Annual Valentine Arts event!
February 9, 2018 from 6pm, NYC.
The Tony Award-winning author, performer and activist Eve Ensler, whose The Vagina Monologues is an international sensation, comes to MTC with a powerful new play based on her critically acclaimed memoir. While working with women suffering from the ravages of war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ensler was stunned by a life-threatening diagnosis. Told with her signature brand of humor, Ensler’s personal journey uncovers surprising connections between her body and the earth and how illness can be both transformative and transcendent. Directing this bold, unflinching and inspiring piece is Tony Award winner Diane Paulus (Waitress, Pippin).
A Performance You Don’t Want to Miss!
6 PM: The evening will commence and include a welcome reception for all our Global Mental Health/Love is EleMENTAL guests with canapés and drinks at Trattoria Dell’Arte (900 Seventh Avenue). Professor Gwendolyn Alker, NYU teacher and scholar in the Department of Drama will provide an introduction and reflections on Eve Ensler’s body of work and her contributions as an artist and activist to advancing understanding around gender and health
7:30 PM: We will walk a few blocks to the New York City Center
8 PM: Eve Ensler’s In the Body of the World will begin
After the performance: Guests are invited to stay in their seats for a moderated TalkBack session with Eve Ensler herself.
Purchase your tickets to support the ongoing work of Columbia University’s Global Mental Health Program HERE .
