Why Women Love The Vagina Monologues & V-Day

Who is Eve Ensler and what has she done for women through "The Vagina Monologues" and launching the V-Day project to end violence against women around the world.

David Cuthbert writes about Eve Ensler and "The Vagina Monologues":

When playwright Eve Ensler first performed "The Vagina Monologues" in 1996 at a small downtown New York performing space called The HERE Theater, "There were maybe 50 people in the audience," she said.

Meredith Vieira on the Today Show interviewed Eve Ensler and Jane Fonda on the Vagina Monologues and V-Day.

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David Cuthbert continued:

On April 12, "The Vagina Monologues," which has become a worldwide phenomenon, launching the V-Day project to end violence against women, will play the 17,000-seat New Orleans Arena with a cast scheduled to include Jane Fonda, Glenn Close, Jennifer Hudson, Ellen DeGeneres, Charmaine Neville, Salma Hayek, Rosario Dawson, Ashley Judd, Julia Stiles, Marisa Tomei and Oprah Winfrey, for whom Ensler is writing a new monologue.

 The New Orleans event — "V to the 10th" — marks the 10th anniversary of the V-Day Project and will be the culmination of thousands of worldwide productions of the play, as is the case every February and March, and Ensler’s own 20-city U.S. tour. A 10th anniversary edition of "The Vagina Monologues" will be released along with the paperback edition of Ensler’s book "Insecure at Last."

To date, performances of the play have raised more than $50 million for local anti-violence groups in more than 120 countries. V-Day now raises "more money than any group in the world to stop violence against women," Ensler has written, "four to six million every year, which is the cost of 10 minutes of the war in Iraq."

Visiting New Orleans this week with several members of her V-Day team, Ensler said she expects the April events to attract attendance "between 30,000 and 40,000.

Read more of David Cuthbert’s artilce here.

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