The Vagina Monologues, Cambridge Arts Theatre. 2002
Cast: Lesley Joseph, Tanya Moodie, Nina Wadia
Writer: Eve Ensler
Director: Irina Brown
An unlikely choice for an evening out for a gay man who has never come anywhere near close to having sex with a woman. I guess this was a big deal at the time and I probably felt it was more to do with feminism than just the vagina. I have a recollection of being in an audience of almost entirely woman and rightly not joining in when they were all encouraged to shout something, probably "vagina/". It would have been weird to do so. I don't think I'd go now if something similar happened, it would feel wrong to be in a female space like that. It's interesting looking at the list of names on the cover, which I'm guessing are other performers on the tour, and it's hard not to feel that Cambridge was slightly short-changed cast-wise.
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