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The
Vagina Monologues is an incredibly funny, moving, and enlightening
evening out.
Written
by Eve Ensler and directed by Irina Brown, it began in 1997 by winning
a major award and has been touring the world ever since.
In order for the human race to continue, women must be safe
and empowered  |
| Eve
Ensler |
The
monologues are the stories from women of all ages and races that
came out of 200 interviews on what they think about their vaginas.
These
women included a 70-year-old woman who called it "down there" and
had never seen her vagina in her life, nor ever had an orgasm.
The
survivor of a Bosnian rape camp talked of how her vagina used to
be her "home village", but now it had gone black and she no longer
went there.
Coloured
lights
Young
girls talked about the excitement and terror of menstruation, and
the embarrassing situations of unexpected "flooding".
A huge
V shape dominates the stage, with three seats and microphones at
the front for the three actresses (currently Tilly Blackwood, Jenny
Jules, and Rula Lenska).
It
reveals to us, through their talks, the empowering and fantastic
vagina.
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One of the most fun, fascinating, multi-faceted things I've
seen |
| A
man, quoted after seeing the show |
The
V shape was covered in light bulbs that it up with different colours,
depending on how the vagina was feeling (happy, angry, hairy, orgasmic,
multi-orgasmic).
A very
exciting fact that was brought to light is that the clitoris has
the highest concentration of nerve fibres in the male or female
body, 8000 to be precise, making it the most sensitive part designed
purely for pleasure.
It
is twice - TWICE - the number of nerves found in the penis.
Empowering
women
The
important thing the show did was to bring the vagina out of its
closet of taboo, with all its mystique and hidden depths, and to
celebrate something very personal to women everywhere.
Eve
Ensler has said: "In order for the human race to continue, women
must be safe and empowered."
By
showing women as the subjects and not the objects, this can be achieved.
Must
be seen to be believed!
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