Amid a global rise in domestic violence during the pandemic, we speak with the founder of V-Day, a day of action to fight violence against women. V, the award-winning playwright of “The Vagina Monologues,” formerly known as Eve Ensler, says organizers around the globe are finding ways to fight back. “I’m so moved to see our grassroots women movements around the world finding ways to rise in spite of people being locked in and shut in and in spite of COVID,” she says. We also speak with blues poet and organizer Aja Monet, V-Day’s artistic creative director, who says Black women are particularly at risk. “For every Black woman who reports rape, at least 15 Black women do not,” Monet says. “We can go down the list and see the impact that sexual violence and harm and abuse has had on Black women primarily, but on women across the world.”
Tony Montenieri
Amid a global rise in domestic violence during the pandemic, we speak with the founder of V-Day, a day of action to fight violence against women. V, the award-winning playwright of “The Vagina Monologues,” formerly known as Eve Ensler, says organizers around the globe are finding ways to fight back. “I’m so moved to see our grassroots women movements around the world finding ways to rise in spite of people being locked in and shut in and in spite of COVID,” she says. We also speak with blues poet and organizer Aja Monet, V-Day’s artistic creative director, who says Black women are particularly at risk. “For every Black woman who reports rape, at least 15 Black women do not,” Monet says. “We can go down the list and see the impact that sexual violence and harm and abuse has had on Black women primarily, but on women across the world.”
Since its publication in the United States in 1998, The Vagina Monologues has triggered a real cultural phenomenon: rarely has a play been performed so many times, in so many different places, in front of such diverse audiences.
A l’occasion des 25 ans de la pièce de la dramaturge américaine, Eve Ensler, et de sa réédition ce mercredi en version augmentée, retour sur le succès fulgurant de ce récit féministe et engagé, traduit en cinquante langues et jouée dans 140 pays.
Le Parisien:«Eve Ensler a rendu la parole aux femmes» : le fabuleux destin des «Monologues du vagin»
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the play by the American playwright, Eve Ensler, and of its reissue this Wednesday in an augmented version, a look back at the dazzling success of this feminist and engaged story, translated into fifty languages and performed in 140 countries.
Join writers Arundhati Roy and V (formerly Eve Ensler) as they talk to writer Preti Taneja, reflecting on the meaning of freedom in a world of growing authoritarianism and on the role of creativity and alternative imaginations. They discuss everything from the impact of human separation during the pandemic on work and their creative lives, to what ‘normal’ will look like in the future – and whether we should avoid going back to it at all costs.
While a new edition of her cult play “Les Monologues du vagin” appears, the American playwright gives us an essential lesson in optimism and bravery.
While a new edition of her cult play “Les Monologues du vagin” appears, the American playwright gives us an essential lesson in optimism and bravery.
Alors que paraît une nouvelle édition de sa pièce culte « Les Monologues du vagin », la dramaturge américaine nous livre une indispensable leçon d’optimisme et de bravoure.
While a new edition of her cult play “Les Monologues du vagin” appears, the American playwright gives us an essential lesson in optimism and bravery.