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V (formerly Eve Ensler)

December 2022

  • Aja Monet, the director of the play; Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah and Angela Davis.

    ‘This is what solidarity looks like’: an African V-Day against sexual violence

    In Accra, Ghana, leading figures in the global women’s movement joined with black artists to launch Voices, an audioplay with creative listening at its core

July 2022

  • V (formerly Eve Ensler)

    I reject the US abortion ruling. I vow to defend the sovereignty of women’s bodies

    V (formerly Eve Ensler)
    At first I wanted to weep and howl. But then I wrote – and then I revolted, says playwright and activist V (formerly Eve Ensler)

February 2022

  • Lebogang Mashile

    Living in a woman's body
    Living in a woman’s body: Mama’s War – an original poem

    In her latest work, the South African actor and writer Lebogang Mashile tackles the exploitation and sexism faced by Black women

November 2020

  • ‘Patriarchs are pissed off’ … the writer V, formerly Eve Ensler.

    'It's time for white women to listen': writers V and Aja Monet on what will replace The Vagina Monologues

    The playwright and activist formerly known as Eve Ensler changed the world with The Vagina Monologues. Her next project hopes to be just as empowering – but this time she’s listening to, not telling, the stories

May 2020

  • Gillian Anderson

    Gillian Anderson on stage – in pictures

    Before rising to fame as X-Files agent Scully, the star began her professional theatre career in the early 90s. She went on to win rave reviews as Blanche Dubois and in All About Eve

April 2020

  • ‘Touch is how we become part of this human community.’

    Lockdown living
    Touch saved me from loneliness. What will we become without it?

    Touch is essential to our wellbeing, from the time we are babies. It’s how we transmit meaning, care, love and community. Our sudden loss of it has been agonising

June 2019

  • Eve Ensler

    The Q&A
    Eve Ensler: ‘Writing about my father's abuse has freed me from hate'

    The playwright and activist on honouring her body, secret initiations and being happy in her 60s

August 2017

  • V Day 2001<br>Brooke Sheilds and Gloria Reuben performs at V day, a gala benefit of Eve/Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues, at Madison Square Garden, in New York City on February 10, 2001. V day’s mission is to end violence against women by increasing awareness through events and the media by raising funds to support organizations working to ensure the safety of women. Photo by Scott Gries/Getty Images

    Even with a misogynist predator-in-chief, we will not be silenced

    Eve Ensler
    20 years after The Vagina Monologues, I’d like to say that feminists have won. But patriarchy is a virus and we are in the midst of a massive outbreak

May 2016

  • Garima, left, sits with headphones as the cast of Yoni ki Raat (Night of the Vagina) surround her during her performance set in a subway car

    Yoni ki Raat (Night of the Vagina): South Asian women on sex, fear and family

    Inspired by The Vagina Monologues, 10 South Asian and Indo-Caribbean women shared intimate narratives in an absorbing and revealing evening

April 2016

  • Amelia Donkor and Carla Harrison-Hodge as Items 1 and 2 in Pomegranate.

    The Fruit Trilogy review – a twisted supermarket sweep from Eve Ensler

    The Vagina Monologues author has added absurdist companion pieces to her fierce polemic Avocado to expose the commodification of women’s bodies

December 2015

  • Rosy Rowley in In Fog and Falling Snow.

    Alfred Hickling's top 10 theatre of 2015

    York’s railway museum tracked the city’s most notorious baddie, Lee Haven Jones was an intense prince in Theatr Clwyd’s Hamlet and Cbeebies’ Justin Fletcher stole the show with Mr Tumble in Manchester

August 2015

  • Her Story web TV show

    Eve Ensler: trans people have been caricatures for too long

    Transparent, Orange Is the New Black and Sense8 have brought transgender characters to wider TV audiences. But where are all the trans love stories? The author of The Vagina Monologues unveils the sexy new web series Her Story

May 2015

  • Avocado by Eve Ensler

    Avocado review – searingly intense monologue on human trafficking

    Vagina Monologues playwright Eve Ensler returns with a harrowing new work that follows a young woman being transported in a container of rotting avocados

February 2015

  • A One Billion Rising event in Ahmadabad, India

    The women's blog
    One Billion Rising: how can public dancing end violence against women?

    Ahead of Saturday’s worldwide dance demo, Eve Ensler explains why her campaign to raise awareness of violence is so important, sets out what OBR has achieved and hits back at her critics

January 2015

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    Vagina Monologues playwright: 'It never said a woman is someone with a vagina'

    After theatre group at all-female Mount Holyoke College blasts the play for not doing enough to include transgender people and people of colour, Eve Ensler tells the Guardian: ‘I would like to believe the play is outdated but sadly it isn’t’

February 2014

  • Children mark the One Billion Rising day of action against violence against women in Tondo, Manila, the Philippines.

    Violence against women: 1bn rising
    One Billion Rising to end violence against women – global day of action and dancing – live coverage

  • Eve Ensler

    Eve Ensler: 'We should be hysterical about sexual violence'

February 2013

  • Nancy Dell'Olio The Vagina Monologues

    The Vagina Monologues - review

    The enormously game Nancy Dell'Olio turned up in her underwear and played to the would-be gallery in a charity benefit night, writes Lyn Gardner

  • Violence against women: 1bn rising
    Women of the world unite to oppose violence through One Billion Rising

    Day features marches in Afghanistan, human chains in Bangladesh and a debate in the House of Commons

  • Violence against women: 1bn rising
    One Billion Rising – Thursday 14 February

    Coverage of events around the world marking a day of action – and dancing – to protest against violence against women and girls

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