Friday, March 27, 2009
Vaginas will be the topic of conversation this weekend at Hashinger Hall.
The Vagina Monologues is a play centered around a series of one-person monologues discussing women’s feelings about their vaginas. The play will begin at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday in the Hashinger Theater. Tickets will cost students $5 at the door, and proceeds will be donated to three places: Women’s Transitional Care Services, the GaDuGi Rape Crisis Center, both located in Lawrence, and a nationwide campaign aimed at stopping rapes in the Republic of the Congo.
Elise Higgins, Topeka junior and president of the Commission on the Status of Women, helped to organize the play by holding auditions and rehearsals for students. Higgins said she appreciated the play because it was a “frank conversation” about a topic not often spoken about.
“It was wonderful to read this play that was not only honest, but funny and encourages women to know their bodies and know what makes them happy,” Higgins said.
She said she would be introducing each of the monologues in the play and there would be informative facts about the vagina between the monologues.
“There will be happy vagina facts and sad vagina facts,” Higgins said. “There will be information about rape to information about the clitoris.”
Corey Flanders, Salina junior and outreach coordinator for the CSM, worked with Higgins to hold auditions and rehearsals. She said she will also be doing one of the monologues, called “Reclaiming Cunt.”
“It’s discussing how ‘cunt’ is used as a derogatory term and kind of degrades women,” Flanders said. “It’s about the act of reclaiming the word and using it as a good thing, like a compliment or a word to use for women and by women in general.”
Dana Schmidt, Wichita junior, is the director of the play and said that she recited one of the monologues in the play performance last year, but that this year the play was centered around her vision.
“I did the set design and have been holding rehearsals and helping the actors to develop the monologues,” Schmidt said.
Schmidt said she appreciated the variety of the monologues.
“Some of them are hilarious, some of them are more moving, and some of them are pretty depressing, actually,” Schmidt said. “But they’re just really well-written and pretty simple, which is always nice.”
Flanders said she hoped students would see the play because it was a topic that women could benefit from, and because the proceeds were going to a good cause.
“It’s about empowerment, education and just having a good time,” Flanders said.
— — Edited by Sam Speer
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Play focuses on femininity
It's about being remarkably silly. I have no intention of using such a word. Being vulgar does not empower one. This is about being female not about being feminine, there is a world of difference between the two.
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