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Giselle Tongi, a talented actress from the Philippines showed her abilities on stage but most of all , she was relevant and funny with that Filipino accent, pronouncing "f" instead of "p" and "b" instead of "v". She said, "I am an angry "Bagina! I don’t know why they have to stuff me with a bunch of cotton balls called the tampon and not feathery cotton sheet!"She was one among the many female performance artists, and actresses who showcased the literary readings of Vagina Monologues, a Broadway play written Eve Ensler which won the Obie.
Among the women who did the readings were Tatyana Ali, Edelyn Aubrey, Esperanza Catubig, Alison dela Cruz, Janelle So, Prosy delacruz, Leslie Lewis Sword, Antoinette Taus, and Tamlyn Tomita.
But the TVM is the not the only highlight. An earlier performance ,A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer was just as moving. This groundbreaking collection, edited by author and playwright Eve Ensler, featured pieces from Until the Violence Stops, the international tour that brings the issue of violence against women and girls to the forefront of our consciousness. These diverse voices rise up in a collective roar to expose, and examine the insidiousness of brutality, neglect, a punch, or a put-down. There was Maya Angelou on women’s work; Michael Cunningham on self-mutilation; Dave Eggers on a Sudanese abduction; and Carol Gilligan on a daughter witnessing her mother being hit;
Both The Vagina Monologues and A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer is a call to the world to demand an end to violence against women. Outstanding among the performers was singer and stage actress Becca Godinez, a character who is a party pooper because she tells the truth about sociopolitical issues and realities of life. Dion Basco as the mutilation artist was funny in a sort of underacting way that you feel that he really enjoys destroying art works.
In both shows, Leslie Lewis Sword was awesome on stage, reading about Sudanese abduction and shouting for the vaginas in the world to unite as she held the crotch of her classic looking trousers on stage.
Of course, the Tagalog monologue of Prosy dela Cruz is really, really funny with metaphoric symbolism of "the flood" which recalls the traumatic experience of an elderly lady when she was young and how the semen made the car of the guy she was with "dirty".
Esperanza Catubig likewise delighted the audience with her character as the Woman Who Loved to Make Vaginas Happy. Using her talent on making different types of orgasmic moans, she showed a diva’s moan, a Brown student’s moan, a Jewish woman’s moan as the audience members giggled and laughed.
The controversial monologue aptly done by performance artist Alison dela Cruz is about a 16-year-old girl who realized that she is a lesbian as she describes a sexual experience with an adult woman. Alison performed the Little Coochie Snorcher monologue so well that the experience was very positive.
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