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News At DC Studio Ensler's Monologues To End Dec. 20, Then Return Dec. 26-Jan. 3 Due to popular demand Eve Ensler's Vagina Monologues will have a return engagement at Washington D.C.'s Studio Theatre Dec. 26-Jan. 3. The Vagina Monologues, subtitled "An Anthropological Exploration," is currently playing through Dec. 20, allowing writer/star Ensler to have Christmas week off before returning to the show.

Due to popular demand Eve Ensler's Vagina Monologues will have a return engagement at Washington D.C.'s Studio Theatre Dec. 26-Jan. 3. The Vagina Monologues, subtitled "An Anthropological Exploration," is currently playing through Dec. 20, allowing writer/star Ensler to have Christmas week off before returning to the show.

Vagina reveals a series of different women's stories and experiences involving their genitalia. The piece was born when playwright Ensler realized that her work, mostly about women, was missing a physiological connection. Ensler told PBOL,"I couldn't be thinking about [liberating women] without thinking about vaginas. I wanted to know about what women were feeling about their vaginas. As I talked to women, I was so awed and amazed by what people were telling me that I began to think, 'there's a [theatre] piece here.'"

Ensler told PBOL, "The reaction to it has been really positive and not in a typical way. People have responded personally to it. They examine issues. . . when I traveled we did Q&A's afterwards, it amazed me how vulnerable people were willing to be. People have been really fantastic."

In a benefit to fight breast cancer, Vagina was performed this past Valentine's Day as V-Day 1998, starring Hollywood faves Winona Ryder, Glenn Close, Whoopi Goldberg, Goldie Hawn, Calista Flockhart, Kathy Najimy, Rosie Perez, Susan Sarandon, Lois Smith, Phoebe Snow, Gloria Steinem, Marisa Tomei, and Lily Tomlin. V-Day 1999 will concentrate on colleges across the country in a special "College Initiative." Also, The Feb. 14, 1999 event will reach across the Atlantic to the UK, where actresses at the Old Vic will read Ensler's play.

The Vagina Monologues was originally produced in New York at downtown's HERE. The Vagina Monologues will play at Washington D.C.'s Studio Theatre, through Dec. 20, then return for a second engagement Dec. 26 - Jan. 3. For tickets ($19.50-$36.50) or more information call (202) 332 3300.

-- By Sean McGrath, Blair Glaser and David Lefkowitz

 
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