The Vagina Monologues

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:

14 February 2012

Scared - the opening line to this perennial theatrical journey of woman. I was terrified, being one of a handful (steady girls) of men in the audience.

At the end of the day, or should I, at say the end of the play, there was nothing to be scared of at all. The journey of the various character’s is thought provoking and heart rending. The cast take the audience on a journey of what it is in being a woman; with humour and pathos that had me laughing and cringing in equal measure.

This is theatre for the modern woman/man who has the ability to engage with the “finer” things of life. This is not however an evening for those who like myself are easily shocked, as I had to bury my head in my hands at one or two moments during the evening. That is not to say I didn’t learn or appreciate the reminiscences of the two hundred strong women who had contributed to the forming of this evening of theatre. This isn’t “Hedda Gabler”, nor is ...

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Lynne Watson - 15 February 2012:

Really enjoyed this performance very much. "Madge" seemed a little less comfortable with it but it was very funny when she started using a word not really used in modern society! My boyfriend ended up on the stage through asking them to repeat a certain "fact" and the girls on stage were fab with him. I think it gave the production a little bit more and after the show "bob" was very well recognised :-). An excellent night out, would recommend that all women and all men should see this. Well done....

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