20:00, Tue 14th February 2023 at Cellars, Clare College
Lent Week 4
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The Vagina Monologues is a play by Eve Ensler in the form of a series of monologues and choral pieces, which honours female sexuality in all its complexity, mystery and power, giving voice to female experience, fantasies, fears, angers, and pleasures, and calls for a world where all women are safe, equal, free, and alive in their bodies. It is a play about unifying the body and identity, about claiming language, about community. Based largely on interviews she conducted with 200 women about their views on a range of important topics through the eyes of women of various ages, races, sexualities, and other differences.
It is a piece of political theatre and is performed around the world on V-Day (14th February) in order to raise money for the grassroots charity chosen that year. Every year, the play is performed on hundreds of university campuses as part of V-Day's College campaign.
We are also incorporating some new monologues to the play (something which Ensler celebrates), from new student writing.