 Several cast members above, left to right: are Kim Krenzer, Ashley Evans, Marisa Caruso. |
SUNY Fredonia students will be one again producing the play, “The Vagina Monologues,” in the Multipurpose Room of the Williams Center Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, Feb. 17, 18 & 19. All performances will begin at 7:30 p.m. and are intended for mature audiences only.
Undergraduates and faculty organize, direct and audition as cast members. This year Briana Wilson, Applied Music major, and Mary Hilton, TV and Digital Film major, have taken the role of co-directors.
Tickets are $3 for students and $6 for general public and can be purchased in the Ticket Office. Tickets can be purchased the night of the show at the Ticket Office.
Eve Ensler wrote "The Vagina Monologues" in 1996, based on interviews she conducted with 200 women on various subjects’ including sex, relationships and violence towards women. Through these interviews she collected personal stories, both comedic and tragic, about the female body. Since then, it has exploded into a global celebration of female sexuality.
“This show has found its way into the hearts of women in countries all over the world. It is touching, heart-wrenching, incendiary, hilarious, heartbreaking, and adorable all the same,” said Wilson.
"The Vagina Monologues" is performed worldwide under the phrase “Until the Violence Stops.” Women have vowed performances will continue until women and girls are safe from violence.
This year 90 percent of the profits from the Fredonia show and fundraising will go to the Anew Women’s Shelter in Jamestown, N.Y.
The other ten percent will go towards the traditional V-Day’s campaign spotlight. This year’s spotlight is dedicated to the women and girls of Haiti. It is in memory of Haitian feminist, Myriam Merlet, who tried to organize a production of "The Vagina Monologues" and was met with resistance and censorship from the government. In 2008 she created a safe house for women in Haiti and in 2010 she tragically perished in the earthquake in Port Au Prince.
To learn more, contact Sarah Clayton, Women’s Studies Graduate Assistant, at 716-673-3158 or Sarah.Clayton@fredonia.edu
