A collection of pieces from the international tour of "Until the Violence Stops" that speaks out against violence against girls and women.
Content Note
Memory (Looking for the body music) / Michael Klein -- 7 variations on Margarita Weinberg / Moisés Kaufman -- 1600 Elmwood Avenue / Monica Szlekovics -- The closet / Howard Zinn -- Darkness / Betty Gale Tyson, with Jerry Capers -- First kiss / Mollie Doyle -- Groceries / Abiola Abrams -- Blueberry Hill / Christine House -- My two selves / Patrcia Bosworth -- The massacre / Marie Howe -- My mother with her hands as knives / Dave Eggers -- Dear Ama / Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy -- Bitter coffee / Jody Williams -- Untitled / Nicholas D. Kristof -- Monologue (My house is wallpapered with lies) / Carol Gillgan -- Maurice / Kathy Najimy -- (Hey, did you happen to see) the most beautiful girl in the world / Jyllian Gunther -- Conversations with my son / Susan Miller -- The perfect marriage / Edward Albee -- None of us are monologists (aka Chill) / Anna Deavere Smith -- Darfur monologue / Winter Miller -- I can hear my soul cracking / Slavenka Drakulic -- Celia / Edwidge Danticat -- They took all of us / Susan Minot -- Rant (Woman) / Tariq Ali -- I'm thinking I've closed my eyes for the last time / Hanah al-Shaykh (translated by Catherine Cobham) -- I can't wait / James Lecesne -- In memory of Imette / Periel Aschenbrand -- Respect / Kimberle Crenshaw -- The aristocrats / Kate Clinton -- Connect : a web of words / Robin Morgan -- Stew / Ariel Dorfman -- The next fantastic leap / Elizabeth Lesser -- Give it back / Suheir Hammad -- The destruction artists / Michael Cunningham -- Hands in protest / Erin Cressida Wilson -- Prayer (The bra) / Sharon Olds -- Banana beer bath / Lynn Nottage -- True / Carol Michèle Kaplan -- Club / Nicole Burdette -- Conversation between Heaven and Earth / Kathy Engel -- Part owner / Michael Eric Dyson -- Woman work / Maya Angelou -- Eye to eye / Deena Metzter -- Hail to the vagina / Robert Thurman -- Rescue / Mark Matousek -- To stop the violence against women / Alice Walker -- Fur is back / Eve Ensler -- Afterword : reclaiming our mojo / Jane Fonda -- An invitation : how to get involved.