Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues, in association with the 2010 V-Day Campaign, the celebrated and provocative play that has become a phenomenon worldwide, will play a limited one-show engagement at Onstage! Ayala Center Cebu Cinema 1 on February 20, 2010 at 7:00PM.

Join us as we celebrate V-Day’s Ten Year Anniversary, raise awareness and envision a world without violence.  

In The Vagina Monologues, Eve Ensler has given voice to a chorus of outrageous, poignant, brave, highly original and thoroughly human stories. Based on interviews with a diverse group of women, the play explores the humor, power, pain, wisdom, outrage, mystery and excitement hidden in vaginas. Having seen The Vagina Monologues, no one—woman or man—will look at the world the same way again.

The Vagina Monologues was originally produced in an OBIE Award-winning run in 1996 and later opened with Eve Ensler in its smash-hit Off-Broadway run at the Westside Theatre on October 3, 1999. Following that sold-out run, the play continued performances with three amazing women sharing the stage in multiple-week engagements. Since that time, it has toured the United States and internationally. The text of The Vagina Monologues has also been used in wildly successful benefit performances, such as V-Day, which have raised millions of dollars to fight violence against women and girls. At V-Day 2001, which sold out the 18,000 seat-Madison Square Garden, Eve Ensler was joined by such stars as Oprah Winfrey, Jane Fonda, Glenn Close, Calista Flockhart, Marisa Tomei, Rosie Perez, Terri Hatcher, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Queen Latifah and Amy Irving.

Last year over 1150 communities hosted V-Day benefits around the world raising funds and awareness towards ending violence against women. These highly successful events raised over $6 million through performance of Eve Ensler’s award-winning play, The Vagina Monologues.  Hot on the heels of their success, Cebu has joined this global movement as part of the V-Day.

A benefit production of The Vagina Monologues at Onstage! Ayala Center Cebu Cinema 1 on Saturday, February 20, 2010 at 7:00 PM, will be presented on behalf of the V-Day 2008 Campaign.  

About V-Day
V-Day is a global movement to stop violence against women and girls. V-Day is a catalyst that promotes creative events to increase awareness, raise money and revitalize the spirit of existing anti-violence organizations. V-Day generates broader attention for the fight to stop violence against women and girls, including rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation (FGM) and sexual slavery. 

Through V-Day campaigns, local volunteers and college students produce annual benefit performances of “The Vagina Monologues” to raise awareness and funds for anti-violence groups within their own communities. 2008 marks V-Day’s 10 year anniversary and with it V-Day has introduced two new V-Day events, V-Day’s A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer: Writings on Violence Against women and Girls, and the V-Day documentary Until The Violence Stops. In 2007, over 3000 V-Day benefit events took place produced by volunteer activists in the U.S. and around the world, educating millions of people about the reality of violence against women and girls. 

Performance is just the beginning. V-Day stages large-scale benefits and produces innovative gatherings, films and campaigns to educate and change social attitudes towards violence against women including the documentary Until the Violence Stops; community briefings on the missing and murdered women of Juárez, Mexico; the December 2003 V-Day delegation trip to Israel, Palestine, Egypt and Jordan; the Afghan Women’s Summit; the March 2004 delegation to India; the Stop Rape Contest, the Indian Country Project, and Love Your Tree. In June 2006, V-Day launched a two-week festival of theater, spoken word, performance and community events called UNTIL THE VIOLENCE STOPS: NYC which invited thousands of New Yorkers to make New York City the safest place on earth for women and girls.   During the two-week festival, UNTIL THE VIOLENCE STOPS: NYC welcomed 2,000 runners in Prospect Park running to demand an end to violence, witnessed 50 actresses and over 100 writers contributing their genius, time and talent to sold out events, and reached millions through media and a citywide subway and bus campaign.

In Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, V-Day commits ongoing support to build movements and anti-violence networks. Working with local organizations, V-Day provided hard-won funding that helped open the first shelters for women in Egypt and Iraq, sponsored annual workshops and three national campaigns in Afghanistan, convened the “Confronting Violence” conference of South Asian women leaders, and donated satellite-phones to Afghan women to keep lines of communication open and action plans moving forward. Through the Karama progam based out of Cairo, V-Day works in-depth to build networks ending violence against women and girls in Egypt, Sudan, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. 

The V-Day movement is growing at a rapid pace throughout the world, in 119 countries from Europe to Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, and all of North America. V-Day, a non-profit corporation, distributes funds to grassroots, national and international organizations and programs that work to stop violence against women and girls. In 2001, V-Day was named one of Worth Magazine’s “100 Best Charities” and in 2006 one of Marie Claire Magazine’s Top Ten Charities.   In nine years, the V-Day movement has raised over $50 million. 
To learn more about V-Day and its campaigns visit www.vday.org. 
 

About the V-Day Campaign

A V-Day Campaign is a catalyst for mobilizing women and men to heighten awareness about violence against women and girls.  By creating this global community, V-Day strives to empower women to find their collective voices and demand an end to the violence that affects one in three women in the US and around the world.  

The Vagina Monologues is an effort within the worldwide context of the 2010 V-Day Campaign.

About The Vagina Monologues

Hailed by The New York Times as “funny” and “poignant” and by the Daily News as “intelligent” and “courageous,” The Vagina Monologues, which was first performed off-Broadway by Ms. Ensler, dives into the mystery, humor, pain, power, wisdom, outrage and excitement buried in women’s experiences.  Ms. Ensler has performed the play to great acclaim throughout the world – from Zagreb to Santa Barbara, from London to Seattle, from Jerusalem to Oklahoma City.  Villard Books/Random House first published The Vagina Monologues, which includes a foreword by Gloria Steinem, in February 1998.  A special V-Day edition of the play was released in February 2001.

 
The Vagina Monologues is supported by Dramatist Play Service, Inc.  Tickets are priced at P1000 (Sponsor), P750 (VIP), P500 (Prime), P300 (Secondary), P200 (General).  All tickets have reserved seats.  Get your tickets now as seats are limited.   Tickets are available at the following outlets: AYALA CENTER CEBU CINEMA TICKET BOOTH (415-8489), COFFEE DREAM SM –  2ND FLOOR NEAR VECO ; GIFTS UNLIMITED – AYALA CENTER CEBU 2ND LEVEL ACROSS GLOBELINES – 231-5587