The Vagina Monologues classic or dud

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let's talk about sex baby / let's talk about you and me / let's talk about all the good things and the bad things / that may be / let's talk about... VAGINAS.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

They're these things.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

no comment.

― jess, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Very enjoyable in context.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The book or the show?

― DG, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Over rated, because of the 'Shocking' content, but parts of it were very enjoyable. I could totally do without the overplay of the shock value aspect of it. It's not offensive and it's good to kill taboos that way, but for me that taboo is already dead. I guess it's just a personal thing.

― deadman, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I saw Eve Ensler do some on HBO last night and was so appalled by her condescension that I had to keep switching the channel away from her. Her yenta routine is a hardened stereotype that she must imagine she's somehow reclaiming, but to me it comes off like the class smartypants unsuccessfully repeating a spontanaeity that yesterday had the other pupils rolling in the aisle.

But I think it may have just been her performance. Some of the material is pretty good, coming as it does from real interviews, like a kind of salon version of Studs Terkel but about vaginas instead of ways to make a living. In the mouth of a professional actress I probably would have really liked it.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I saw it live with three actresses reading and enjoyed that more than the HBO special.

― Samantha, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Who did them, Samantha? I bet given the right action and inflection it would be pretty funny. The monologues are structured like stand-up routines but her timing and judgement were so consistently off that it was unsettling. I couldn't decide if the worst moment was when she faked a Southern accent for a whole monologue or when she pointed to the "Vagina Map" and said "Pittburgh loves vaginas... who knew?" What metropolitan smugness. There was some weird self-congratulatory ethnography going on here that admitted no health besides her version of "natural". Oh wait, no, sorry, worst moment must have been the countless times she put old ladies on the spot for never having examined their own vaginas under bright lights with a mirror. All modesty must be rooted out and exposed to the light where it may wither and die, to fertilize the soil of our flowering vaginas!

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

dur, the only name I remember was actually a non-actress, Linda Ellerbee. There was one other white woman and a black woman. This was in Austin. It's much better performed straight through.

― Samantha, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

they are being performed in NZ at the moment. with lucy lawless. no shit. haven't seen it, but saw excerpts of it in rehearsal. it looked dumm. maybe i should read the book and see what i think.

― di, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

they are being performed in NZ at the moment. with lucy lawless. no shit.

Blimey. I hope no-one tries to give her any backchat. Off with their heads!!

― Norman Phay, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Top image Norman!

If the three actrixes was xena and gabby and callisto i wd pay cash-money possibly

― mark s, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

na well you ain't in luck its just some slappers who used to act in pathetic NZ hospital drama Shortland St.

― di, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Shortland Street had quite the cult following in Australia for a while...

― electric sound of jim, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

get with the program di. its being performed in Fuckland with Lucy Lawless and Dunedin with Rima Te Wiata. which is even worse.

― hamish, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

vaginas are cool man. whats your favorite word for a vagina? mine is poonanninananonoyokoono.

― chaki, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

didn't you know dorkboy, dorkland IS New Zealand esp according to The Listener.

― di, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah but isn't it about VULVAS and if so isn't that ironic?

― elizabeth anne marjorie, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

they don't even have the uterus to get it right.

― di, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

cunt

― Geoff, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

perhaps i am misjudging this thread, but it seems to me that things like this are part of what makes some people consider ilx on occasion rather absurdly&unfortunately male-centered...

― ..., Saturday, 25 October 2003 23:49 (twenty-two years ago)

claiming that ilx is male-centered = korrekt
claiming that ilx is male-centered on the evidence that nobody takes the vagina monologues seriously?? = sub-c4l*m-in-righteous-mode at best.

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Sunday, 26 October 2003 02:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I like Eddie Izzard's and Mitch Hedburg's standup better. I can relate more.

― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Sunday, 26 October 2003 02:02 (twenty-two years ago)

In the mouth of a professional actress I probably would have really liked it.

Wel...yeah...

― Skottie, Sunday, 26 October 2003 07:54 (twenty-two years ago)

four years pass...

So students in my MA program have deided to put on a production of the VM for V-Day this year. I have mixed feelings in general about the play but V-Day is a good cause so I'm ok with it. I have been talked into doing (among others) the Reclaiming Cunt monologue in which I'll have to say "cunt" repeatedly and loudly on stage. Apparently, I'm the only on "gutsy" enough to pull it off. ?! Eek. I'm just afraid I'll start laughing if I spot any friends in the audience. I can do this. I think.

― ENBB, Sunday, 13 January 2008 16:46 (seventeen years ago)

i did a private reading of a few of them at a beach house in PEI this summer.

― s1ocki, Sunday, 13 January 2008 17:54 (seventeen years ago)

Long monologues are dud. A narrator telling stories is classic.

― Aimless, Sunday, 13 January 2008 19:13 (seventeen years ago)

I know I've complained about this before on the board, but I hate it so much because almost every time she says "vagina," she means "vulva." Really, if you're trying to "spread awareness" you should use the right goddamn terminology. One monologue has a woman bemoaning her husband's dislike of her "hairy vagina." Well, honestly, I think he's justified as it's be pretty gross to have your reproductive canal lined with secretion-coated hair! They mean vulva. VULVA. So fucking SAY it!

― Abbott, Sunday, 13 January 2008 19:24 (seventeen years ago)

I would be absolutely a-okay with them if they were called "The Vulva Monologues."

― Abbott, Sunday, 13 January 2008 19:24 (seventeen years ago)

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(1st 'shop I ever did for ilx)

― Rock Hardy, Sunday, 13 January 2008 19:30 (seventeen years ago)

My friend is doing this at her university, I will suggest vulva.

― Ivan, Sunday, 13 January 2008 19:31 (seventeen years ago)

the vulva memos

― s1ocki, Sunday, 13 January 2008 19:33 (seventeen years ago)

I want to hear slocki's reading.

― Abbott, Sunday, 13 January 2008 19:35 (seventeen years ago)

Abbott - you're totally right and, funnily enough, I'm also doing the hair one. I'll have to go back and see if "Hair" has the wrong terms. Hmmmm. It's too bad there isn't a term that means all of it vulva, vadge etc. because although you're right in your objections, I think vagina is the more widely known term etc.

― ENBB, Sunday, 13 January 2008 19:38 (seventeen years ago)

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/1267/imageuploadimagesk8.jpg

― libcrypt, Sunday, 13 January 2008 19:42 (seventeen years ago)

(Not a vulva.)

― libcrypt, Sunday, 13 January 2008 19:43 (seventeen years ago)

I hate that is the more widely known term because it is wholly the wrong term. I think it's just slangy words like "pussy" that mean the whoke thing.

― Abbott, Sunday, 13 January 2008 20:01 (seventeen years ago)

The Pussy Potboiler
The Cunt Account
The Snatch Sketch
The Cooter Cliffhanger
The Yoni Yarn

― Rock Hardy, Sunday, 13 January 2008 20:06 (seventeen years ago)

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