UNCA Hosts Performance of "The Vagina Monologues;"
Proceeds to Benefit Our Voice

UNC Asheville's Women Acting in Liberation student group will host a performance of the award-winning play "The Vagina Monologues" at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 13, and at 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 14, in UNCA's Humanities Lecture Hall. Doors open 30 minutes before each performance. Admission is free for students and $8 suggested donation for general admission. All proceeds will benefit Our Voice, an organization that advocates for the compassionate and fair treatment of sexually assaulted persons.

UNCA's production, featuring a cast of 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 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 organizer Katie McClure at 828/255-2732.

Media Contacts:

• Katie McClure, UNCA senior and event organizer, 828/255-2732
• Jill Yarnall, UNCA Public Information Assistant Director, 828/251-6526