By: Ann Varner
On February 21st and 22nd we held our traditional vagina monologues. Performers for the
monologues included community members, staff, and current students. The monologues touch
on many different issues concerning the vagina, and th
e performers did a fantastic job of delivering their scripts.
Some of the monologues were funny, some long, some short and to the point, and some very powerful. Having never seen the monologues before (I know, how can I work here for years and have never seen them?!) I was unsure of what to expect. I am a fidgety person, so sitting for extended periods of time in theaters is something I do not enjoy. However, the monologues had me captivated the entire time and I hardly noticed that I had been sitting still for a few hours.
I think that the monologues have a great deal of importance because even when the script was funny, there was always an underlying point to be made. It reminded me a bit of Nanette, which was a Netflix special that premiered this summer by Hannah Gadsby. Nanette, like the monologues, used comedy to speak on very difficult subjects with some moments becoming very
tense as the audience realized it was not all for laughs.
Thank you to our performers, all the different partners we had in putting on the shows, as well as
our supporters. We sold many t-shirts, vagina pops, buttons, and mugs. We appreciate your
support very much. Please come see us next year if you were unable to make it this year.