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Posted 8 months ago Have you ever seen the Vagina Monologues? What are your sentiments about these performances? Check out a new article about The C-Word. |
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| Posted 8 months ago We are organizing the Vagina Monologues at our university this month. In addition, this is the 10th anniversary of the Vagina Monologues so we are organizing ten days of activities around the programming. We also have the Clothesline Project going into our art gallery, which the clothesline project is a form of empowerment for women of domestic abuse in which they design shirts that to express themselves about the violence. The Vagina Monologues can be very graphic in terms of vocabulary. I really despise the c-word so I have a hard time listening to that part. I cringe whenever I hear the word, let alone hear a female say the word. |
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| Posted 5 months ago I never saw the play performed, but I read it.....twice...to see what I was 'missing' the first time as it was so highly recommended. And I just don't like the play. I don't really get insulted by language in general, so it wasn't that..... I just think it is way overrated. And I don't find it to be 'liberating.' towards woman as others view it as. I see it as sensationalism, or an 'effort' to make a statement on woman, and feminism, but wears thin after one gets over the 'shock' factor of the language and the cliche affirmations of woman. |
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| Posted 4 months ago I had the opportunity to see Eve Ensler speak at our Until the Violence StopsFestival: Providence (and have seen numerous productions of the Vagina Monologues as well). It was absolutely inspirational, moving and even funny at times. She discussed the reasons she wrote the play, the new monologues she has written since the initial publication in regards to the Comfort Women, Bagdad, and most recently- New Orleans. To me this play is so important. Not for the shock value, not for being radically feminist, but for brining attention to the pandemic of violence against women and girls- what "V-Day" is all about. We also produced two showings of the Vagina Monologues on campus (already in the works prior to seeing Eve). The vast majority of students, faculty and staff LOVED it! It was the first time in 5 years it had been preformed on campus. VM is a hot issue in Rhode Island due to being banned from Providence College 3 years ago. However, even PC has allowed other plays by Eve Ensler (such as A Memory, A Rant and A Prayer and Necessary Targets). Reading or seeing her other works, or hearing her in person, gives more context and light to the VM. The Monologues are not for everyone- but after witnessing an audience full of women and men on the verge of tears after Crooked Braid and having had the opportunity to perform Welcome to the Wetlands myself, it definitely important for some. Korina Anja |
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| Posted 24 days ago I've seen the vagina monologues. I loved it. It was funny, funny, funny. My husband even came with me! He's a jewel. Our daughter also enjoyed it as a teenager and later she was an actress in a stage performance of Vagina Monologues at her college. Very moving. Angie Toussaint
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