UNCA Hosts Performance of "The Vagina Monologues"

The Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance, a UNC Asheville student group, will host a performance of the award-winning play "The Vagina Monologues" at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 22, and Saturday, Feb. 23, in UNCA’s Humanities Lecture Hall. Admission is $5 cash at the door and all proceeds will benefit Our Voice, Helpmate and the Revolutionary Association of Women in Afghanistan.

UNCA’s production, featuring a cast of 15 UNCA students and faculty, is staged in cooperation with the V-Day Campaign. This annual campaign allows communities to produce the show royalty-free to raise money for groups working to stop violence against women.

Eve Ensler’s "The Vagina Monologues" gives voice to a chorus of poignant, brave, highly original and thoroughly human stories. Based on interviews with a diverse group of women – from a Long Island antique dealer to a Bosnian refugee – the play explores the humor, pain, wisdom, mystery and excitement of women’s bodies.

This Obie Award-winning play has been called a "a bona fide phenomenon" by The New York Times and "a work of art and a piece of cultural history" by Variety.

For more information, call student director Ali Nininger-Finch at 828/236-3896.

Media Contacts:

• Ali Nininger-Finch, UNCA student and director, 828/236-3896
• Jill Yarnall, UNCA Public Information Assistant Director, 828/251-6526