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Show benefits victims
February 14, 2008
Students, faculty and staff celebrated Valentine’s Day with two showings of “The Vagina Monologues” in Eastvold Auditorium last Friday and Saturday.
It marked the eighth year that the annual benefit production of Eve Ensler’s award-winning show has been staged on campus. The play is based on Ensler’s interviews with over 200 women concerning sexuality, the female body and violence against women.
Since the original performance of “The Vagina Monologues” in 1998, the play has become a social movement. It is now tied to a worldwide effort called V-Day, a nonprofit organization that seeks to end violence towards women and girls worldwide.
PLU donated 10 percent its profits to V-Day’s international cause of the year, “Katrina Warriors: The Women of New Orleans.” The remaining 90 percent will support local organizations, including PLU Men Against Violence, the YWCA Teen Dating Violence Prevention Program, the Sexual Assault Center of Pierce County and the PLU Sexual Assault Peer Education Team .
The performance was sponsored by the Women’s Center.
Since the original performance of “The Vagina Monologues” in 1998, the play has become a social movement. It is now tied to a worldwide effort called V-Day, a nonprofit organization that seeks to end violence towards women and girls worldwide.
PLU donated 10 percent its profits to V-Day’s international cause of the year, “Katrina Warriors: The Women of New Orleans.” The remaining 90 percent will support local organizations, including PLU Men Against Violence, the YWCA Teen Dating Violence Prevention Program, the Sexual Assault Center of Pierce County and the PLU Sexual Assault Peer Education Team .
The performance was sponsored by the Women’s Center.