Term Papers on Vagina Monologues

Term Paper Title	Vagina Monologues
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# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	3.7

Vagina Monologues



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                                                                                                            Public Event Essay

            For my first public participation event, I attended the Vagina Monologues at The Armory Free Theatre on February 15, 2002.  The play was directed by Mary Elizabeth Peters.  The cast was a comprised of Parkland Junior College students and The University of Illinois Department of Theatre.  The play, written originally by Eve Ensler, was a collage of testimonies from 200 random women who were of different race, culture, and background.  Ensler said in an interview with Les Gutman from “Curtain Up” magazine:

“I was worried about vaginas. I was worried about

what we think about vaginas, and even more worried

that we don't think about them. . . .  So I decided to

talk to women about their vaginas, to do vagina

interviews, which became vagina monologues....  At

first women were reluctant to talk. They were a little

shy. But once they got going, you couldn't stop them.”

--Eve Ensler

One of the most interesting things about the play was the fact that it was told without the use of props and visual aids.  While Ensler’s play, while very humorous, always had an underlying tone of seriousness.  The main idea of the play was to inform men and women about the “vagina” not only as a part of a woman’s anatomy, but also how it makes up part of their soul.  It is meant to empower woman by making them comfortable by calling it by all of it’s associated  names such as cunt, pussy, box, flower, etc.  It was an interesting experience watching the show as a man.  It made me go through emotions of happiness and laughter, but it also made me experience sadness and shame.  I learned a great deal about female anatomy, but also different perspectives on how woman think about and view their womanhood.

            The cast was made up of 13 different women.  There was a narrator who interacted and introduced each unique account.  The testimonies ranged from an elderly Jewish woman from Queens, New York who could barely talk about her vagina and one sexual experience she had in high school that changed the way she thought about her vagina for the next 50 odd years, to a woman from Bosnia who was raped and a piece of her vagina was torn off.  The mental anguish this woman went through was very deep and intense.  All of the actors that were in the play did a very goo...

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