My story for Preview
So I'm a teensy bit scared to post this because my blog is on the search engines and I know that they latch on to certain keywords ... but I'm really happy about this story (not claiming it's well-written or anything -- it's not -- but just that I'm glad that I got to write it for our paper at all.) It's an important subject (more so than I even knew about previously) and the woman I talked to for the story was so nice and friendly and open. I'd absolutely love to go, but Stephen is unsure. I laughed and told him that maybe I'd go with his mom and HE could stay home and watch the baby.
Anyway, if I get a whole bunch of nasty spam from this post, then I might make it friends-only or start spelling things wrong. But really, who searches for "vagina" if they are looking for bad stuff anyway? :-)
Driftwood presents "Vagina Monologues"
Debbie Scoones doesn’t want you to judge the play by its title.
“A man told me that he was uncomfortable with that word in the title, so he thought that he couldn’t go,” she said. “But I told him ‘I really think you need to reconsider - don’t be scared by the title - it’s an important message.’ ”
Scoones, the publicity chairwoman for Driftwood Theatre, and also an actor in the play, said that she understands that when people hear the Driftwood Players are putting on “The Vagina Monologues,” they might feel awkward at first.
But the show is designed to get people thinking, she said.
The play consists of a series of humorous, touching, serious, educational monologues based upon interviews with women about their vaginas and the cultures around them.
The production opens at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 24, and performances continue at 7:30 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays through Dec. 14. There will also be a matinee at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 16.
Tickets, which are $10, are available at Value Drug in Montesano, Top Foods, City Center Drug and Captain’s Cove in Aberdeen, Harbor Drug in Hoquiam and Our Place in Ocean Shores. Tickets will also be available at the door.
Each of the monologues in Eve Ensler’s empowering play deals with the vagina in a different way.
Some of the featured subjects are sex, love, rape, menstruation, mutilation, masturbation, orgasm, vagina names and giving birth.
In “I was 12, my mother slapped me,” women discuss how their stories about the first time they menstruated. Some had positive, celebrated experiences and others were shamed and made to feel dirty.
“My angry vagina” delves into the story of a woman who is fed up with males in society deciding what’s best for women’s bodies.
She laments about everything from douches to thong underwear, and from tampons to uncomfortable and undignified gynecological exams.
In the monologue, “Hair,” a woman deals with a controlling husband who cheats on her because she won’t shave the hair off of her vagina.
After a female marriage counselor suggests she just do it to please him, she learns that the hair is there for a reason.
“You can’t pick the parts you want, you have to love the whole vagina,” the character declares at the end.
Scoones said that it is implied in the script that the woman leaves her husband because even after she succumbed to his wishes, he continued to be unfaithful.
Other monologues deal with the stories of sex workers, genital mutilation and rape.
This important but difficult subject matter has helped the show to spark a worldwide movement to end violence toward women. The show is performed annually at colleges and universities around the country.
The final monologue, “I was there in the room,” ends the show on a life-affirming note.
This story describes the character’s emotions at witnessing her laboring daughter-in-law giving birth.
It is based on Ensler’s experience at being present for the birth of her granddaughter.
Scoones said that when the play was first written, this monologue was not included.
“She (Ensler) realized she’d made a terrible mistake,” Scoones said.
“How could she include all these sexual purposes for the vagina and leave out that it is also a life-giving vagina?”
Anyway, if I get a whole bunch of nasty spam from this post, then I might make it friends-only or start spelling things wrong. But really, who searches for "vagina" if they are looking for bad stuff anyway? :-)
Driftwood presents "Vagina Monologues"
Debbie Scoones doesn’t want you to judge the play by its title.
“A man told me that he was uncomfortable with that word in the title, so he thought that he couldn’t go,” she said. “But I told him ‘I really think you need to reconsider - don’t be scared by the title - it’s an important message.’ ”
Scoones, the publicity chairwoman for Driftwood Theatre, and also an actor in the play, said that she understands that when people hear the Driftwood Players are putting on “The Vagina Monologues,” they might feel awkward at first.
But the show is designed to get people thinking, she said.
The play consists of a series of humorous, touching, serious, educational monologues based upon interviews with women about their vaginas and the cultures around them.
The production opens at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 24, and performances continue at 7:30 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays through Dec. 14. There will also be a matinee at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 16.
Tickets, which are $10, are available at Value Drug in Montesano, Top Foods, City Center Drug and Captain’s Cove in Aberdeen, Harbor Drug in Hoquiam and Our Place in Ocean Shores. Tickets will also be available at the door.
Each of the monologues in Eve Ensler’s empowering play deals with the vagina in a different way.
Some of the featured subjects are sex, love, rape, menstruation, mutilation, masturbation, orgasm, vagina names and giving birth.
In “I was 12, my mother slapped me,” women discuss how their stories about the first time they menstruated. Some had positive, celebrated experiences and others were shamed and made to feel dirty.
“My angry vagina” delves into the story of a woman who is fed up with males in society deciding what’s best for women’s bodies.
She laments about everything from douches to thong underwear, and from tampons to uncomfortable and undignified gynecological exams.
In the monologue, “Hair,” a woman deals with a controlling husband who cheats on her because she won’t shave the hair off of her vagina.
After a female marriage counselor suggests she just do it to please him, she learns that the hair is there for a reason.
“You can’t pick the parts you want, you have to love the whole vagina,” the character declares at the end.
Scoones said that it is implied in the script that the woman leaves her husband because even after she succumbed to his wishes, he continued to be unfaithful.
Other monologues deal with the stories of sex workers, genital mutilation and rape.
This important but difficult subject matter has helped the show to spark a worldwide movement to end violence toward women. The show is performed annually at colleges and universities around the country.
The final monologue, “I was there in the room,” ends the show on a life-affirming note.
This story describes the character’s emotions at witnessing her laboring daughter-in-law giving birth.
It is based on Ensler’s experience at being present for the birth of her granddaughter.
Scoones said that when the play was first written, this monologue was not included.
“She (Ensler) realized she’d made a terrible mistake,” Scoones said.
“How could she include all these sexual purposes for the vagina and leave out that it is also a life-giving vagina?”