Towards the beginning of this semester I attended the Vagina Monologues. I had heard of this show before, but I didn’t know much about it. I honestly had no idea what to expect when I first got there. I went with my roommate and when we first walked in we were offered vagina shaped chocolate lollipops. The tickets cost 7 dollars, but all proceeds of the show went to Planned Parenthood.
The show consisted of a group of women on stage all wearing red. Either an individual woman would step forward and give her monologue or a group of women would step forward and deliver their monologue together. There was a vast range of stories that the women shared. Some were funny and others were very serious. The stories ranged from the gruesomeness such as female mutilation and rape, too others that supplied comic relief through talking about periods and sex.
My favorite monologue was one where a woman told a story about the different types of moaning people yell during sex. She walked up on stage in a long coat and took it off to reveal that all she was wearing was a corset. She then went on to start crawling around the stage and moaning comically. Her college impression, “must study” moan was truly hilarious. Not only did I like this skit because it was funny, but it showed the actor’s true confidence to be strutting around the stage like this and not becoming embarrassed or shy.
Overall, I was pleasantly surprised with the show as I went in having no idea what to expect. It was a powerful show that showed the hardships of women. It wasn’t over the top feministic though, which I was expecting which was nice. It was a show that was fun and relatable and basically just a fun time for women to get together and relate about problems that no one usually talks about.
