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Lead Performances: Mirjana Jokovic and Diane Venora

It's tough to pinpoint the moment Eve Ensler's play -- a study of war-ravaged Bosnian women -- veers off course. Perhaps it's when someone compares a sardine to a refugee. Or when others offer that Americans are Big Mac-eatin', therapy-dependent richies. Or when the girls get drunk and dance around like they're in some Hollywood chick flick. Probably not what you'd expect from Ensler, the playwright/activist who raised eyebrows and awareness with 1999's The Vagina Monologues. There's powerful stuff: a mother (an excellent Mirjana Jokovic) who lost -- literally lost -- her child while fleeing; a doctor stripped of her craft and identity (Diane Venora, intensity personified). The aim is admirable; Necessary just misses its target.


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Posted Mar 15, 2002
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