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“The Vagina Monologues” at UNCG April 4-6

GREENSBORO – “The Vagina Monologues,” Eve Ensler’s hit play, will be presented Friday through Sunday, April 4-6, at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

The production is the capstone project of senior drama student Brooke Barnett of Greensboro, who also is doing it as a V-Day event. Admission is $10 for adults and $5 for students. Proceeds will go to Clara House, the battered women's center in Greensboro. Performances will be in the Elliott University Center auditorium, with curtain times at 8 p.m., except for a 2 p.m. Sunday matinee.

Barnett will perform the play’s monologues, and the director is Julee Barber. Also in the cast are Leah Humphrey, Lakeetha Blakeney, Maribeth Ayers, Erica Linderman, Jody Cauthen, Taeonna Ancrum, Cara Reid, Emily Covington, Tara Hobbs, Britt Brewer and Marsha Paludan.

An Obie Award-winner, the play is a series of monologues that grew out of interviews that Ensler conducted with over 200 women. The global V-Day movement to stop violence against women is an outgrowth of its message. Celebrated as both a guide and a manifesto for women, "Monologues" has been performed in cities across America and at hundreds of college campuses.

The play’s stories are hilarious and heart-warming. They unveil the feelings and real-life experiences of such diverse characters as a Bosnian refugee, an elderly antique-dealer from Long Island and a tax lawyer turned sex therapist. It is a funny and moving collage of the female experience that has delighted men as well as women. The play opened its successful off-Broadway run in October 1999, with Ensler starring in the production through January 2000.

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