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Article: Theatre Review: The Vagina Monologues
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- February 18, 2009
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THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES ***
PLAYHOUSE, EDINBURGH
IN THE age of internet porn, perfect skin and pervasive celebrity
eating disorders, The Vagina Monologues is beginning to look old-
fashioned. It's been a long, violent decade, after all, since Eve
Ensler first wrote this explosive series of monologues, and set
about the thankless task of trying to rescue the most powerful and
magical of female organs from the realms of whispered euphemism and
shouted obscenity.
Yet despite a painful lack of progress on many of the subjects
Ensler raises, 3,000 yelling women a night - and just a few men -
are still willing to pour into the Playhouse to see four famous
women talk vaginas, in a two-hour show ...