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The Art of Turning Pain into Power
Eve Ensler and Jane Fonda at the 2001 V-Day even at Madison Square Garden
Are you sure about the title?” I asked her. The year was 1995 and my best friend, Eve Ensler, had the brilliant idea to perform a series of monologues based on hundreds of interviews she had conducted with women on the subject of their vaginas. The title was as bold and audacious as the piece itself: The Vagina Monologues. I loved the words, the work, the characters and of course, her chutzpah to take on a topic that up until that moment had dared not speak its name. But The Vagina Monologues? Really? Wouldn’t the word vagina alienate audiences and relegate the piece to a strictly downtown theatre crowd?
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