The Vagina Monologues - Why Growing Old is Great

Synopsis

The play had a hit off Broadway run in New York in the 1996/97 season, winning a Drama Desk Award nomination and an Obie Award. The play has subsequently been performed on tour in America with great success. 'The Vagina Monologues' was the centrepiece for V-Day, a gala theatrical and musical charity event, which took place at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York on Valentine's Day 1998. Artists taking part in this event included Whoopi Goldberg, Winona Ryder, Glenn Close and Susan Sarandon. The Vagina Monologues, subtitled "An Anthropological Exploration", reveals a series of different women's stories and experiences involving their genitalia. The material was gathered from hundreds of intimate interviews, conducted by Ensler, in which women were asked probing questions such as "If it your vagina could talk, what would it say?".

Our Review:

15 November 2012

“Let’s just talk about the word ‘vagina’.” And we’re off.

Vicky Entwistle as Janice Battersby in Corrie wasn’t backwards, and she’s not in this production either.

She is joined on stage by former Emmerdale actress Hayley Tamaddon and seven-month pregnant Clare Buckfield, of 2.4 Children and Dancing on Ice fame, to tell us the story about women’s bits. But it’s not that simple. New Yorker Eve Ensler has created a show which unashamedly celebrates the female form.

It explores a subject not often spoken aloud in polite society and, instead of the words hanging in the air, they boldy scream around the room. The three women tell us stories from a collection of monologues by women of all ages and nationalities with very different tales to explore.

Experiences, secrets, problems, fantasies and thoughts are regaled by the actresses who sit on stools. It is a show fo...

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