Karen Anselm advises the young women from Bloomsburg University. Kymmie Dennis and Diana Santos organized the event. The stage was set with various forms of seating all draped in red. The girls did a splendid performance with some difficult material some of which included Outrageous Vagina Fact, The Little Coohie Snorcher That Could, The Flood, Because He looked at it and ending with I was There in the Room which talked about Eve watching as her grandchild was born.
Eve has traveled all over the world interviewing women and putting on the vagina monologues. In the beginning she did all the parts by herself but it has evolved over the years by many women making a stand and presenting her work. Jane Fonda has joined her and does many performances. HBO a television version featuring Ensler was produced by cable TV. In 1998, Ensler launched V-Day, a global non profit that has raised over $50 million dollars for local anti-violence groups through benefits of The Vagina Monologues.
“Every monologue somehow relates to the vagina, be it through sex, love, rape, menstruation, mutilation, masturbation, birth, orgasm, the variety of names for the vagina, or simply as a physical aspect of the female body. A recurring theme throughout the piece is the vagina as a tool of female empowerment, and the ultimate embodiment of individuality.” The play started simply enough by Eve speaking with her friends about rape, violence, mutilation, sex and how they all related to the vagina. She speaks about women of Bosnia who have been violated and mutilated and other societies that have the clitoris removed from their women.
