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.

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