After a successful 3-city sold out run in Cyprus of The Va**na Monologues, XMAS Productions presents The Good Body, another play by Tony award winning playwright and New York Times best selling author, Eve Ensler. The Good Body merges cross-cultural explorations with Eve's own personal journey coming to terms with her" less-than-flat, post-forties stomach. Eve Ensler turns her unique eye to the re
st of the female form. Whether undergoing bottox injections or living beneath burqas, women of all cultures and backgrounds feel compelled to change the way they look in order to fit in. “Maybe I identify with these women because I have bought into the idea that if my stomach was flat, then I would be good and I would be safe. I would be accepted, admired, important, loved. Maybe because for most of my life I have felt wrong, dirty, guilty and bad, and my stomach is the carrier, the pouch for all that self-hatred. Maybe because my stomach has become the repository for my sorrow, my childhood scars, my unfulfilled ambition, my unexpressed rage.” Eve Ensler draws on personal experience, candid interviews, haunting stories and forbidden topics relating to the female body to create a play that both questions and inspires. Our aim is to bring an international cast for this play in order to embrace multiculturalism. The cast is made of 10 women, both professional and amateur actresses: 3 Cypriots, 2 American, 2 British, 2 Romanian and 1 Canadian-Cypriot. (Xenia Joakim, Nedie Antoniades, Tania Skorda, Shaunna Ioannidou, Diane Avraamides, Tessa Kolessides, Jill Mac Donald, Christina Kamberi, Anca Pericleous, and Christina Marouchou)
Performances will take place on April 5,6,7 and 12,13,14 of 2013 at the Melina Merkouri Cultural Centre at 9 pm. All monologues will be performed mostly in English, with two exceptions in Greek. All net profits will go to local charities supporting Children in need and abused children, and the Shelter for Abused Women and Children in Cyprus.
