Vagina Monologues February 2009

This show was very eye opening even after seeing the video about the beginning of the V-Day movement. I have grown even more respect for women after seeing this production. I learned about many things that women go through or that they have had to go through in the past. The fact that they included a question and answer style meeting after the show was a very interesting ending to such a powerful evening.
The most powerful scene I believe was the one when the performer told the audience the story of the comfort women. It saddened me that people would force these young women to be their sexual slaves, having sex upwards of fifty times a day. I am glad that there has been some forward motion in these women being publicly apologized to by the Japanese government.

The most fun scenes in the play were when Annika’s character came on stage and declared that she was bringing the word CUNT back and when Emily’s character talked about making all the other women moan. The audience found great joy in yelling the word CUNT when they were asked to amongst all the laughter. Emily must have had to work at not laughing during this moaning scene because everyone was laughing about all the different moaning creations that the cast made on stage. My personal favorite was when Laura did her Catholic school girl moan, proclaiming, “Forgive Me Father!”

The guest appearance of Jennifer Dotson-Creter during the let your fingers do the walking scene was spectacular! She looked so beautiful and her entire dance was flawless. I knew that she taught dance at Stage One, but I had no clue how talented she was above the fact that she taught dance.

I loved this performance and was very glad that I had decided to go and see it with a few of my friends!