"The Vagina Monologues" begins tonight at 7 p.m. in Ball State University's Fine Arts Building in room 217 in honor of V-Day 2009.
The play will show once a night, starting today, until Wednesday. An informational fair about volunteer opportunities working against violence on women will follow the play.
"The Vagina Monologues" was written in 1998 by Eve Ensler. It is a compilation of interviews she conducted with hundreds of women transformed into a series of monologues about their experiences with their gender, the opposite sex and their vaginas.
"The show is designed to be humorous, insightful and enlightening," Sheila Plank, Ball State's V-Day coordinator, said. "It allows people to see insight of the experiences women face and opens the door for people to talk about ourselves and our bodies with respect and dignity."
The play has been translated into more than 45 languages and has been performed in more than 120 countries. It is because of the play's tremendous success that Ensler decided to begin her V-Day Campaign - a worldwide movement to end violence against women.
"'The Vagina Monologues' and V-Day stands against any kind of violence against women, not just domestic," Plank said.
The women's studies program, its honors program and the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies are sponsoring the program, which includes the play and the V-Day fair.
"The mission of the V-Day fair is to offer a forum for everyone," Plank said. "People can sign up to volunteer for A Better Way, or if they need service they can sign up with a counseling center in a comfortable environment."
Ninety percent of the proceeds will go to A Better Way - a local organization that helps victims of domestic violence - and 10 percent will go to V-Day's 2009 Spotlight, or V Spot.
The V-Spot of the 2009 campaign concerns violence, rape and mutilation against women in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Tickets, T-shirts, buttons and free condoms will be offered in the Atrium today through Wednesday along with information about teach-ins at Ball State concerning the slavery, rape and mutilation of women in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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