The Vagina Monologues [a blackbox theatre experience]
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The Vagina Monologues [a blackbox theatre experience]
Written by Eve Ensler | Directed by Chris Kapp
Presented by Players on High at the Carlisle Theatre
Saturday, February 8 @ 7:30pm
Sunday, February 9 @ 2:00pm
"In 1994, a play called The Vagina Monologues, written by playwright and activist V (formerly Eve Ensler), broke ground, offering to the world a piece of art like nothing it had seen before. Based on dozens of interviews V conducted with women, the play addressed women’s sexuality and the social stigma surrounding rape and abuse, creating a new conversation about and with women. The Vagina Monologues ran Off-Broadway for five years in New York and then toured the United States. After every performance, V found women waiting to share their own stories of survival, leading her to see that The Vagina Monologues could be more than a moving work of art on violence; she divined that the performances could be a mechanism for moving people to act to end violence. On Valentine’s Day 1998, V, with a group of women in New York City, established V-Day. Set up as a 501(c)(3) and originally staffed by volunteers, the organization’s seed money came from a star-studded, sold out benefit performance at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York, a show that raised $250,000 in a single evening for local anti-violence groups including Safe Horizon, and Sakhi. V-Day’s mission is simple. It demands that violence against all women, girls and the Earth must end."
A portion of proceeds will be donated to the Carlisle YWCA in awareness of ({V-Day}): a global movement that uses art and activism to end violence against all women, girls, and the Earth.
Written by Eve Ensler | Directed by Chris Kapp
Presented by Players on High at the Carlisle Theatre
Saturday, February 8 @ 7:30pm
Sunday, February 9 @ 2:00pm
"In 1994, a play called The Vagina Monologues, written by playwright and activist V (formerly Eve Ensler), broke ground, offering to the world a piece of art like nothing it had seen before. Based on dozens of interviews V conducted with women, the play addressed women’s sexuality and the social stigma surrounding rape and abuse, creating a new conversation about and with women. The Vagina Monologues ran Off-Broadway for five years in New York and then toured the United States. After every performance, V found women waiting to share their own stories of survival, leading her to see that The Vagina Monologues could be more than a moving work of art on violence; she divined that the performances could be a mechanism for moving people to act to end violence. On Valentine’s Day 1998, V, with a group of women in New York City, established V-Day. Set up as a 501(c)(3) and originally staffed by volunteers, the organization’s seed money came from a star-studded, sold out benefit performance at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York, a show that raised $250,000 in a single evening for local anti-violence groups including Safe Horizon, and Sakhi. V-Day’s mission is simple. It demands that violence against all women, girls and the Earth must end."
A portion of proceeds will be donated to the Carlisle YWCA in awareness of ({V-Day}): a global movement that uses art and activism to end violence against all women, girls, and the Earth.