Women's Center: The Vagina Monologues Performance

Watch our incredibly talent students perform in the Wright State tradition: The Vagina Monologues. Directed by Fin Harris and Elizabeth Harvey.

About the show:

In 1994, a play called The Vagina Monologues, written by playwright and activist V (formerly Eve Ensler), broke ground, offering to the world a piece of art like nothing it had seen before. Based on dozens of interviews V conducted with women, the play addressed women’s sexuality and the social stigma surrounding rape and abuse, creating a new conversation about and with women. The Vagina Monologues ran Off-Broadway for five years in New York and then toured the United States. 

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.

Charles Isherwood of The New York Times called the play "probably the most important piece of political theater of the last decade."

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'".

Content notice:

The monologues in the show discuss controversial, taboo, and sensitive topics--an important part of free speech and academic freedom at public universities. The information shared in the show does not reflect Wright State University, the Women's Center, or anyone associated with the show. Audience discretion is advised.