WPLN News Archive; The Vagina Monologues (Scott H) 2 8 01; News Archive 1/2/01-2/12/01

women all over national in public in front of paying customers are sharing concerns they have traditionally kept to themselves we heard as that was the cast of the vagina monologues during a practice for their performance which runs this weekend at vanderbilt spend chapel as part of the day a worldwide movement to prevent violence against women the play is available royalty free to people who wish to perform in the week or so surrounding the only stipulation is all proceeds must be donated to nonprofit organizations helping women three middle tennessee organizations are putting on the show this week the actress bridge ensemble at vanderbilt the backdoor playhouse at tennessee tech and cocktail and the music mavens a women's group the national debt will perform at the unitarian universalist church and whatnot actress rachel at of the actors bridge says a show using this kind of language raises issues the performers don't often face my monologue is called my angry that i know my mother is so pleased but he's coming in the show which is

it was really surprising to me oh yes you're my father but i was at dinner last night my parents and when my father back against that then another lieberman said so how's the person whispering is hardly the worst of it sitting in a circle during a break cast members described various reactions to their current roles there were mass at that calls site in the sap that those that those those who does the tip that those marks another option is to use twenty four as of yesterday and refuses to call them given substances in the virginia march our no the vagina monologues of course his events first play first performed in nineteen ninety six in new york based on interviews answer conducted with women of every age race and nationality sometimes gripping and sometimes hilarious the monologues address sex health violence rape and every other issue women face

i want to talk about they like to say those rumbles that sometimes you can hear the planes sometimes letting think what are the animals and changing weather sometimes people want the leaks to forget this is challenging stuff and traci share some of the actors bridges glad that though the show has skipped nationalists many tours it is finally being produced locally i just think nashville is growing in a lot of ways but in many ways too and i mean part of that i think the morbid curiosity my first exactly just that fact to say hey guess what i didn't i don't want to sing people's response says jennifer garrett who was part of a group read the play lester in the vanderbilt campus said those responses have gone a little

further than shot stammers yesterday ryan nanni dc area to sign on was there in response to a postcard mailing daily forrester one of the play's directors has received angry phone calls complaining about the play's title and the image on the card and obstructed rear view of a nude woman one man hung up on her and anger it's just pure sesame street might get that he's never you know he's never going to know how important is he says for women and what the content is and how to be a difference it made in the lives of the thirteen fifteen of us that are involved in this production and if the team winning like the ones gathered around the circle right now are raped every thirty minutes in our country and that that's what this piece is about it's about ending that violence is never going to get that message because he can't get past the winner getting past the word in fact it's kind of the point but is a show about

women performed by only women going to get anything but women in the audience remember there's great ensemble production of the vagina monologues runs tonight through saturday at the chapel at vanderbilt university the music mavens perform the show february fourteenth at the first unitarian universalist church of nashville and what month boulevard and the backdoor playhouse at tennessee tech performs the show february fourteenth three sixty for national public radio