Necessary Targets | Criticism

  • Joyce Hart

    Hart is a freelance writer and published author with degrees in English and creative writing. In this essay, she examines what Ensler refers to as the "death of trust" and what Ensler suggests that it takes to bring trust back into life.

  • Karen Bovard

    In the following review, Bovard describes the plot of Necessary Targets and praises Ensler's "naturalistic, character-based drama."

  • Giselle P. Kasilag

    In the following essay-interview, Ensler describes to Kasilag her organization of V-Day and her reaction to the experiences of women in the Bosnian conflict, which inspired Necessary Targets.

  • Pamela Grossman

    In the following interview, Grossman talks to Ensler about reaction to The Vagina Monologues, her own body image, and her other projects, including Necessary Targets.