The [V......] Monologues
Feb. 15th, 2011 10:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidTwo weeks ago, I went to a production of The Vagina Monologues (Eve Ensler) at 0 Church St, in the sanctuary I hadn't been to before (it's very very nondenominational, luckily).
I'd heard of the show, but never made it to a performance before. It's a series of skits*, some with intros, mostly monologues, based on interviews with lots and lots of women about their vaginas. Topics ranged from the word itself (and other words for the same thing), to aesthetic considerations (hair and other questions of appearance), to facts and figures (number of nerve endings, amount of violence against women, and so on), to a range of stories (of violence and shame, of finding one's sexuality, of taking charge of one's orgasms, and more).
* To wit: Hair, "Wear and Say", The Flood, The Vagina Workshop, Vagina Happy Fact, Because He Liked to Look At It, Not-so-happy Fact, My Angry Vagina, They Beat the Girl Out of My Boy... Or So They Tried, My Vagina Was My Village, The Little Coochi Snorcher That Could, Reclaiming Cunt, A Six-year-old Girl Was Asked, The Woman Who Loved to Make Vaginas Happy, I Was There in the Room, and a 2011 spotlight on Myriam Merlet.
It's a fascinating show; I think it's a shame that the audience was so overwhelmingly female. I hope that there will be more guys next VDay.
And I also thought it strange that a mother brought her 4-year-old kid to the show. Not only not appropriate content, some of it, but also unable to be quiet and still for the length of the show.
I'd heard of the show, but never made it to a performance before. It's a series of skits*, some with intros, mostly monologues, based on interviews with lots and lots of women about their vaginas. Topics ranged from the word itself (and other words for the same thing), to aesthetic considerations (hair and other questions of appearance), to facts and figures (number of nerve endings, amount of violence against women, and so on), to a range of stories (of violence and shame, of finding one's sexuality, of taking charge of one's orgasms, and more).
* To wit: Hair, "Wear and Say", The Flood, The Vagina Workshop, Vagina Happy Fact, Because He Liked to Look At It, Not-so-happy Fact, My Angry Vagina, They Beat the Girl Out of My Boy... Or So They Tried, My Vagina Was My Village, The Little Coochi Snorcher That Could, Reclaiming Cunt, A Six-year-old Girl Was Asked, The Woman Who Loved to Make Vaginas Happy, I Was There in the Room, and a 2011 spotlight on Myriam Merlet.
It's a fascinating show; I think it's a shame that the audience was so overwhelmingly female. I hope that there will be more guys next VDay.
And I also thought it strange that a mother brought her 4-year-old kid to the show. Not only not appropriate content, some of it, but also unable to be quiet and still for the length of the show.