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The Vagina Monologues

Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2005 11:55 am
by Steve R
I am told there is to be a performance of this locally.

As I can lip-read, I might just go.

Re: The Vagina Monologues

Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2005 12:19 pm
by Jacques
I like a nice mumbler

Re: The Vagina Monologues

Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2005 12:22 pm
by Steve R
Jacques wrote:

> I like a nice mumbler

One with a lithp perhapth?.

Re: The Vagina Monologues

Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2005 12:58 pm
by Steve R
Incidentally, I was somewhat piqued by the success of this work - particularly as a piece I penned personally, The Penis Preambles, performed pitifully poorly in the provinces.

It flopped.

Re: The Vagina Monologues

Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2005 1:03 pm
by Jacques
Perhaps it needed a little support?

Re: The Vagina Monologues

Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2005 1:18 pm
by Steve R
Indeed, Jacques.

However the main problem was one of casting.

The work involved just two characters - male and female.

Now whereas the man gave a somewhat stiff and wooden performance - not what one normally looks for in an actor, but entirely appropriate for this role - the woman simply dried up.

We really needed an actress of the calibre of Helen Mirren, for example, who would have grasped the part with both hands and milked it for all it was worth.

Re: The Vagina Monologues

Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 2:53 pm
by Guilbert

As an antidote to the Vagina Monologues the comedian Richard
Herring did actually tour with a show called "Talking Cock"