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V is an activist addressing issues of violence against women and girls. In 1998, her experience performing The Vagina Monologues inspired her to create V-Day, a global activist movement to stop violence against women and girls. V-Day raises funds and awareness through annual benefit productions of The Vagina Monologues. In 2010, more than 5,400 ...
The 15 Most Powerful Film Monologues April 3, 2022 at 11:16 PM Monologues have become a rare feature in modern cinema, but when they do show up, they can become one of the best moments in an ...
Peter DeBruge of Variety stated that "[i]n adapting Ntozake Shange's Tony-nominated play—a cycle of poetic monologues about abuse, abortion and other issues facing modern black women, rather than a traditional narrative—the do-it-all auteur demonstrates an ambition beyond any of his previous work. And yet the result falls squarely in ...
Each woman states where she is from, by stating they are outside their respective cities. The lady in brown proclaims that this piece is all for "colored girls who have considered suicide / but moved to the ends of their own rainbows". [12] The women then begin to sing children's nursery rhymes, "mama's little baby likes shortnin, shortnin". [12]
A sensitive film (that won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2018) about a trans woman’s grief, loss and becoming a, yes, fantastic woman. 12. 'Rachel Getting Married'
March is Women’s History Month , which means it’s time to spice up our streaming queue with the best feminist movies. And thanks to streaming platforms like...
The Vagina Monologues also served as inspiration for Yoni Ki Baat, the "South Asian adaptation of The Vagina Monologues", [34] and as loose inspiration for The Manic Monologues, "the mental-illness version of The Vagina Monologues." [35] The Cardinal Newman Society has criticized the performance of the play on Catholic college campuses. [36]
The subject matter of the monologues includes women's relationships and wardrobes and at times the interaction of the two, using the female wardrobe as a time capsule of a woman's life. The show was initially presented as a part of the 2008 summer series at Guild Hall in East Hampton, New York , and then as a benefit series at the DR2 Theatre ...