Co-Curricular Event: The Vagina Monologues Audition

On the November 19th, I audition for the play The Vagina Monologues, by Eve Ensler, being presented by Feminist Majority. I knew about the play from the Feminist Majority meetings and from Sierra Stein. After Take Back the Night on Wednesday, Adina Leshinsky talked to me about the play. We talked about the different roles and how that there are ones within my comfort level, and how easy the auditions are, you did not have to prepare anything for the audition. So to make a long story short, she basically persuaded me to try-out. So the next day at about 6:30 pm, I headed over to HMSU room 314 to audition. I did theater in High School, but I still get nervous at auditions. I personally think that it …show more content…
At the beginning of the year, when we were playing the game, I believe that the Bohemians would have liked this event. This event correlates to many of the pageantries and views of the bohemian. For example, the play has a feminism power to it and represents freedom of speech with an open discussion on controversial topics. I think that they would have been supportive of me in auditioning. More recently we have discussed the acceptance of women’s sexuality. Women were once viewed to not have liked sex at all and just put up with it for their husbands and to have kids. This ideology went under a complete evolution – or should I say sexual revolution – through media and pop culture as explained by Susan Douglas (63-64). This evolution is reflected in this play for women are shown to have their own needs, wants, and desires that they attempt to embrace. They do despite abuse, the media, and society’s disapproval. The women of the play grow and are no longer the submissive girls, but empowered women. They according to Susan Douglas would have been, “an active agent in the world, in control of her [their] sex life and her [their] future”