Word: ensler
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Vagina. There I've said it. I am saying it to celebrate my womanhood because what you don't say becomes a secret which shame, guilt and embarrassment surround." So opens Eve Ensler's dynamic and candid play The Vagina Monologues, now showing at the Agassiz Theater. In its original form, Ensler's singular work was made to lead the audience towards a celebration of the "sustenance, humor and creativity" that encompass the woman's discovery of self. Indeed, her avowed purpose in writing the piece was to communicate the abuse of the vagina to the general public...
...While Ensler's dialogue is amusing, touching, offensive and poignant by turns, her play as a whole lacks cohesion. Certain entire scenes are, if anything, confusing and unprofessional. Add to this the fact that giggles occasionally escape from the mouths of the actors on stage in the current production and you have an unprofessional--and at times even demeaning--interpretation of what potentially could have been a moving discourse about women and the discovery and preservation of self...