FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, Feb. 9, 2004
Contact: Dave Wellman, Director of Communications, (304) 696-7153
 

‘The Vagina Monologues’ to be performed at Marshall University

HUNTINGTON, W. Va. – “The Vagina Monologues,” a benefit production sponsored by the Marshall University Women’s Center as part of the V-Day 2004 College Campaign, is coming to MU’s main campus this week.

The benefit production will be performed by Marshall students at 8 p.m. daily Thursday, Feb. 12 through Saturday, Feb. 14 in the Francis-Booth Experimental Theatre located in the Joan C. Edwards Performing Arts Center.

This is the fourth consecutive year the Marshall Women’s Center has sponsored “The Vagina Monologues.” Hailed by The New York Times as “funny” and “poignant,” the show dives into the mystery, humor, pain, power, wisdom, outrage and excitement in women’s experiences.

The play is performed in honor of V-Day, a global movement to stop violence against women and girls. V-Day  promotes creative events to increase awareness, raise money and revitalize the spirit of existing anti-violence organizations.

Local volunteers and college students produce the annual benefit performances to raise awareness and funds for anti-violence groups within their own communities. The V-Day College Campaign has raised awareness of the problem of violence against women and girls on 1,500 college campuses worldwide.

V-Day, a nonprofit corporation, distributes funds to grassroots, national and international organizations and programs that work to stop violence against women and girls. In its first six years, the V-Day movement raised more than $20 million.

The play was first performed off-Broadway by Eve Ensler. The show has been performed throughout the world, from London to Seattle, from Jerusalem to Oklahoma City. “The Vagina Monologues” book was published in February 1998 and a special V-Day edition of the play with two sections about the College Campaign was released in February 2001.

Tickets for the show are $7 for Marshall students and $12 for the general public and may be purchased in advance at the Women’s Center, Prichard Hall room 143, or at the box office the night of the performance. For more information contact the Women’s Center at (304) 696-3338.

More information about V-Day and violence against women can be found at www.vday.org.

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