“The Vagina Monologues” comes to Fayetteville
This Wednesday at 7:00 and 9:30 PM a local group of women will perform Eve Ensler’s “The Vagina Monologues” at the Scarpino Teatro, part of the global movement to stop violence against women and girls.
“The Vagina Monologues” is a series of monologues (ugh, duh) that Ensler wrote in 1996 and is based on hundreds of interviews with different women talking about their, ahem, vaginas. Audience members are not required to have any particular genitalia. The goal is to educate and activate people to end the violence now.
It’s part of the V-day organization, which has raised over $60 million to fund grassroots efforts stop violence against women.
The money raised from the performances will go to the Benton County Women’s Shelter and the women of the congo.
You can purchase tickets at the door, space permitting, or by calling or e-mailing the contacts below.
Purchase tickets:
Call: Rikki Strouse (479) 721-9781
E-mail: Rikki, ilovetotravel24@yahoo.com; Megan Massanelli, mamassan@uark.edu
More info:
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a. brown
April 6, 2009
I am excited about seeing this for the first time, but I wish they could have made it a little easier to get tickets (i.e. online?). I also hope the owners of Scarpino’s don’t freak out when they realized women may be talking about genitals onstage for over an hour.
a. brown
April 8, 2009
Hrumph. The taco article gets over 30 comments, but the vagina one only gets 2. Where’s the love?
George
April 8, 2009
Hey, I’ll show some love to the vagina.
For real though this is a really good cause. Violence against women is a bad enough problem in this country, but I don’t think most of us can even fathom the scale or brutality of this issue in other parts of the world. V-day supports domestic and international efforts. Yay for them!
Dummy
April 8, 2009
i thought we already had a discussion about tacos.
Boggy Creek Creature
April 8, 2009
Once, in high school, whilst discussing the Vagina Monologues, my friend said, “I know what it’ll sound like!”
Grabbing both side of his face, he vibrated them rapidly, resulting in a wet, flapping sound.
Imagine the “poppa-oom-mow-mow” scene from Pink Flamingos, but with a vagina.
Seriously, though, much love to V-Day. Taking someone’s most intimate and awesome possession and mutilating it, either physically or emotionally, is one of the worst crimes. Something worthy of Jack the Ripper, not an actual human.
Viva Vagina!
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