Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Play of Ensler's 'Emotional Creature' comes to NYC

FILE - This Feb. 11, 2010 file photo shows author and playwright Eve Ensler at V-Day's 4th Annual Los Angeles Luncheon featuring readings from Ensler's newest work, "I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World," in Los Angeles. Producers announced Wednesday, June 27, 2012, that the Signature Theatre Company will produce the stage adaptation of the book. The play, starring six women, is a collage of monologues and chat sessions about body image, dieting, sex and abortion, among other topics. There is also peppy music by Charl-Johan Lingenfelder. Previews begin Oct. 26 with an opening night set for Nov. 12. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, file)

FILE - This Feb. 11, 2010 file photo shows author and playwright Eve Ensler at V-Day's 4th Annual Los Angeles Luncheon featuring readings from Ensler's newest work, "I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World," in Los Angeles. Producers announced Wednesday, June 27, 2012, that the Signature Theatre Company will produce the stage adaptation of the book. The play, starring six women, is a collage of monologues and chat sessions about body image, dieting, sex and abortion, among other topics. There is also peppy music by Charl-Johan Lingenfelder. Previews begin Oct. 26 with an opening night set for Nov. 12. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, file)

(AP) ? A play based on Eve Ensler's 2010 best-seller "Emotional Creature" is heading off-Broadway.

Producers announced Wednesday that the stage adaptation, also written by "The Vagina Monologues" author, will be performed at The Pershing Square Signature Center this fall.

The play, starring six women, is a collage of monologues and chat sessions about body image, dieting, sex and abortion, among other topics. There is also peppy music by Charl-Johan Lingenfelder.

Previews begin Oct. 26 with an opening night set for Nov. 12.

"Emotional Creature" was workshopped at New York Stage and Film at Vassar College in August 2010, with subsequent stagings in Johannesburg and Paris. It had its world premiere this month at Berkeley Repertory in California.

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Online: http://www.emotionalcreature.com

Associated Press

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