In her first new work since The Vagina Monologues, her Obie Award—winning smash hit, Eve Ensler tells the story of two American women, A Park Avenue Psychiatrist and a human rights worker, who go to Bosnia to help women confront their memories of war and emerge deeply changed themselves.  Necessary Targets is a groundbreaking play about women and war—about the violence of dark memories and the enduring resilience of the human spirit.

Melissa, an ambitious young writer, and J.S., a successful but unsatisfied middle-aged psychiatrist, have nothing in common beyond the methods they have been taught to distance themselves from other people. As J.S. begins to feel compassion for the women whose tragedies she has been sent to expose, she turns on Melissa, who finds safety in control. In an unexpected moment of revelation, J.S. and the women she is supposedly treating find a common ground, a place to be taught and a place to learn.            

Eve Ensler is an internationally acclaimed playwright whose many works for stage include Floating Fhonda and the Glue Man, Lemonade, The Vagina Monologues, and  The Good Body.  Performances of The Vagina Monologues, sponsored by V-Day (www.vday.org), have raised over $25 million to stop the violence against abused women and girls around the world.