She is smart, funny, mostly fearless, empathetic an engaging if sometimes tangent-plagued raconteur.

Attempts included anorexia, promiscuity, performance art.

Here, Ensler would help foundCity of Joy, a recovery facility for survivors.

In the Body of the WorldWritten & Performed by Eve EnslerDirected By Diane Paulus

Credit: Joan Marcus

She grasps for connections to make sense of it all.

Ensler doesnt pretend otherwise, yetIn The Body of the Worldhinges dramatically on those connections.

Yes, the show is a mishmash of worthy concerns.

If anything has kept my faith in humans, she says, it is the Cindys.B