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...Shaye J.D. Cohen, Littauer Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature...
...actress Alison E. Cohen ’07 adds, “The fact is that most of the participants wouldn’t have met if they hadn’t participated in the Vagina Monologues…All are interested in improving the lives of women everywhere and we’re also really interested in being a part of an all-woman cast...
Since its popular off-Broadway run in 1997, Eve Ensler’s poignantly tragic and humor-tinged series of monologues on female sexuality has become a mainstay on college campuses, and Harvard is no exception. Cohen claims her time on the Cantabrigian campus forced her to take notice of works like VM. Says Cohen, “Being at Harvard has made me think much more about issues about issues of gender...
...Wednesday cast meeting, Cohen gave an impromptu preview of her role in VM as a sixty-something lady who has resisted becoming close to a man after her first orgasm at age 20 and now has reluctantly submitted to an interview on her sexuality. In a convincing if inconsistent Brooklyn drawl, Cohen delivered her monologue with a stage confidence that revealed her expansive experience as a Spoken Word performance poet. Comparing her vagina to a “cellar” (a part of the house that “no one talks about”), Cohen?...
According to Cohen, her character portrays a palpable generational difference in the consideration of female sexuality. Cohen says her character’s sense of shame demonstrates that “there are still many women who think that pleasure during sexual activity isn’t something women are supposed to enjoy.” Mutlu’s monologue, on the other hand, not so subtly promotes a woman’s freedom to dress regardless of what onlookers may think...