The Vagina Monologues is an episodic play written in 1996 by Eve Ensler which developed and premiered at HERE Arts Center, Off-Off-Broadway in New York and was followed by an Off-Broadway run in at Westside Theatre. The play explores consensual and nonconsensual sexual experiences, body image, genital mutilation, direct and indirect encounters with reproduction, vaginal care, menstrual periods, prostitution, and several other topics through the eyes of women with various ages, races, sexualities, and other differences.[1]
Charles Isherwood of The New York Times called the play "probably the most important piece of political theater of the last decade."[2]
In 2018, The New York Times stated "No recent hour of theater has had a greater impact worldwide" in an article "The Great Work Continues: The 25 Best American Plays Since 'Angels in America'".[3]
Ensler originally starred in both the HERE premiere and in the first off-Broadway production, which was produced by David Stone, Nina Essman, Dan Markley, The Araca Group, Willa Shalit and the West Side Theater. When she left the play, it was recast with three celebrity monologists. The play has been staged internationally, and a television version featuring Ensler was produced by cable TV channel HBO. In 1998, Ensler and others, including Willa Shalit, a producer of the Westside Theatre production, launched V-Day, a global non-profit movement that has raised over US$100million for groups working to end violence against women (including those who hold fluid identities that are subject to gender-based violence),[4] through benefits of The Vagina Monologues.[5]
In 2011, Ensler was awarded the Isabelle Stevenson Award at the 65th Tony Awards, which recognizes an individual from the theater community who has made a substantial contribution of volunteered time and effort on behalf of humanitarian, social service, or charitable organizations for her creation of the V-Day movement.
^"THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES". EVE ENSLER. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
^"The Culture Project and Plays That Make a Difference". The New York Times. 3 September 2006. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
^"The Great Work Continues: The 25 Best American Plays Since 'Angels in America'". 31 May 2018. Retrieved 2 May 2019 – via NYTimes.com.
^"ABOUT V-DAY". V-Day. 9 September 2020. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
^Glamour Magazine (13 February 2014). "We found it: The absolute best thing to do on Valentine's Day". Glamour. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
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