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...sometimes difficult to look at a vagina. Or so Kate G. Ward ’05 was kind enough to demonstrate during the first sketch of the Athena Theater Company’s (ATC) Vagina Monologues , which played through this past weekend at the Agassiz Theater. With the help of Anastasia M. Artemyev ’08 (who held the mirror), Ward bent over backwards in an effort to show everyone just how hard it is for a woman to get a good look at herself...
...pithy demonstration that perhaps captured the purpose of the whole production. As a forum for expressing a wide range of opinions and attitudes, Vagina Monologues is a hands-down success. Each of the 20 skits has something different to say about a topic that even college students rarely talk about—and if they did talk about it, they wouldn’t manage to cover half as much territory as this show packs into two hours...
...Ensler compiled the Vagina Monologues based on hundreds of one-on-one interviews with women ranging from ages 6 to 72. It can safely be said that there is no other performance piece that gathers into one production the stories of a sexually-abused lesbian rediscovering her ability to experience physical pleasure, a sexually-liberated Englishwoman who has at long last found her clitoris, and a power lawyer-turned-professional-pleasure-giver...
...Vagina Monologues is written to exploit the guiding principle that the ability to laugh at something, or even just say it out loud, can blunt the edge of the controversial and allow us to confront the unspeakable. Thus, hearing other women’s experiences can, if nothing else, help us to think about our own. In fact, as a woman, it is hard to not to identify with and reflect on two skits (“Hair” and “My Angry Vagina”) that pointedly discuss the unnatural aesthetic standards by which...
...more serious note (and there are many serious notes in the Vagina Monologues ), domestic violence, female genital mutilation, and rape all had time in the spotlight. In “Memory of Her Face,” Sarah K. Howard ’07, Manisha Munshi ’06, and Alexandra C. Palma ’08 spoke about civilian victims of America’s bombings in Iraq. In particular, they mentioned the cases of a Pakistani woman whose husband threw acid on her face. (According to Ensler, 90 percent of these female civilian victims...