Vagina Monologues At MSU

Thursday, Mar 26, 2009 10:20am | COMMENTS (8)

A group of MSU’s College of the Arts Students have organized a benefit production of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues as part of the global V-Day campaign to end violence against women and girls. Proceeds from the show will go to help Women in the Democratic Republic of Congo as well as The Safe House, a haven for battered women and children in Essex County. Performances tonight at 7:30 p.m. and on Saturday at 8 p.m., will be held at Memorial Auditorium. Tickets are $15 (general admission; $10 for MSU students/faculty). For tickets, email organizer Liz Mackintosh.

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8 Comments

POSTED BY Nick Charles | March 26, 2009 @ 10:42 am
Crikeys. I thought we were only subjected to this nonsense on Valentine’s Day.
POSTED BY meridotz | March 26, 2009 @ 11:13 am
….Nonsense? Seriously? Have you ever even seen the Vagina Monologues? Is your opinion that the only acceptable day to address violence against women is on a Hallmark Holiday, and even then it’s nonsense?
You’re right, Nick. Forget about those poor, tortured, raped and battered women.
POSTED BY Spot The Looney | March 26, 2009 @ 11:20 am
Nick sez “nonsense.”
Wow! Stunning.
POSTED BY LiFer | March 26, 2009 @ 11:49 am
Ack. Thanks for the more-or-less NSFW graphic.
POSTED BY MellonBrush | March 26, 2009 @ 12:45 pm
queef?
POSTED BY walleroo | March 26, 2009 @ 1:16 pm
I’m at work on my own monologue. It’s called “F—!”
POSTED BY Nick Charles | March 27, 2009 @ 8:30 am
“Forget about those poor, tortured, raped and battered women.”
I didn’t realize I was dismissing the plight of these women. I thought I was commenting on a play that has little artistic merit.
I haven’t seen it, but I’ve read it, and that’s more than enough for me. It’s solipsistic and trite and borderline offensive. I’m thinking in particular of the monologue that features an older woman’s discussion of her statutory rape of a teen girl. Something tells me a similar monologue involving a man and a boy wouldn’t go over so well.
If that’s the kind of stuff you have to watch to support women in trouble, then you have a serious problem.
POSTED BY Elle.Apple | March 28, 2009 @ 11:19 am
Nick, I’m going to assume you haven’t read TVM in quite a while. You must have forgotten that the monologue you are referring to is told from the perspective of the 13 year old girl who had her first positive sexual experience with a woman in her twenties.
Yes, the situation is not conventional or even commendable, but when you take the monologue as a whole and consider the fact that the girl was raped at age 7 by her father’s friend…the one encounter she has with an older woman who restores her self worth and makes her feel beautiful again seems a lot less deplorable.
Besides, TVM is not meant to be taken out of context. You can not fully understand Eve Ensler’s message, or even the movement behind the play if you don’t take it as a whole. When you see women performing it and accept the fact that the play is based on the experiences of real women who were interviewed by Eve, it is impossible to leave the theatre without being inspired. It’s entertaining, enlightening AND for a good cause! Sounds like an honorable piece of theatre to me!
And Nick, I suggest you actually see the play and support the cause with your attendance at a performance before you label it offensive, trite and solipsistic. I think you’d leave the theatre a less judgemental and pretentious human being.
Check out vday.org for more information on the global movement that was inspired by Eve Ensler’s Obie Award winning play “The Vagina Monologues”.

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