Quote India The Vagina Monologues has been playing in India since March 2003 and is produced by POOR-BOX PRODUCTIONS. It has been given an Indian twist: The original monologue "The Flood," featuring a Jewish woman has been transformed into a story about an elderly Parsi woman; and a woman who meets a man who loves to look at her Vagina is now a Maharashtrian woman in the Indian production. The Indian production of The Vagina Monologues is produced and directed by Mahabanoo Kotwal and Kaizaad Navroze Kotwal.The play has performed in: Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Calcutta, Hyderabad, Pune, Calcutta, Bhubhaneshwar, and Colombo in Sri Lanka. The original cast is still performing the play: Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal, Dolly Thakore, Jayati Bhatia, Sonali Sachdev, and Avantika Akerkar. Shivani Tanksale and Varshaa Agnihotri have filled in for certain performances. A production featuring Jane Fonda and Marissa Tomei was banned in the South-Indian city of Chennai in 2004. Despite that, Ms. Fonda, Ms. Tomei and Ms. Ensler performed in the play in Mumbai and Delhi as part of a series of events titled V-DAY INDIA 2004: THE YEAR OF THE INDIAN WOMAN WARRIOR. In March 2009, to celebrate the 200th show of The Vagina Monologues in India, Poor-Box Productions presented V-DAY INDIA 2009: WOMEN AND MEN ENDING VIOLENCE "ALL TOGETHER". That event featured several Bollywood stars including Imran Khan, Farhan Akhtar, Zoya Akhtar, Loveleen Tandan, Sandip Soparrkar, Sid Makkar, Jessy Randhawa, Smilie Suri and Nairika Kotwal-Cornett. The Hindi language translation of The Vagina Monologues titled Kissa Yoni Ka debuted in Mumbai at the NCPA's TATA Theatre in January 2007. The cast included: Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal, Dolly Thakore, Varshaa Agnihotri, Russika Duggal, Geetika Tyagi and Shivani Tanksale. The last two have been replaced by Dilnaz Irani since August 2008. [4] The play may have been translated into Hindi and performed in January 2007.[5] Actresses: Dolly Thakore, Avantika Akerkar, Jayati Bhatia, Sonali Sachdev, Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal Mallika Sherawat performed at the 100th show on May 29, 2005 at 9pm.][6] Jane Fonda and Marisa Tomei performed with the troupe around International Women's day in 2004 and toured Mumbai and Delhi Unquote [Source: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performances_of_The_Vagina_Monologues#India>.]
I could never make it though. Sukla On 21/03/2010, Kavita Krishnan <kavitakris...@gmail.com> wrote: > the play has already been performed in India some years ago. > > On 21 March 2010 10:59, C.K. Vishwanath <ck_vishwanath2...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> >> >> ----- Forwarded Message ---- >> *From:* CK VISHWANATH <ckvishwan...@gmail.com> >> *To:* C.K. Vishwanath <ck_vishwanath2...@yahoo.com> >> *Sent:* Sun, 21 March, 2010 9:58:21 AM >> *Subject:* Re: Women's Month Celebration: Vagina Monologue >> >> >> >> On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Rinita Mazumdar >> <revfemini...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Hey Guys and Gals, >>> Absolutely excited!!! At least saw a play worth watching, brought in the >>> notion of *GLOBAL FEMINISM* the play is called* VAGINA MONOLOGUE*, and is >>> by the author Eve Ansler. >>> >>> We must absolutely perform the play in India. There are several things >>> worth about the play: (some of the women in this play performed in my >>> plays >>> "Sutteee debate in the British Parlour and the Kitchen" where I went >>> through >>> a quasi-Taslima type adventure with the Hindu Temple at the >>> forefront!!!!!) >>> >>> The play "VAGINA MONOLOGUE" is worth watching for several reasons: >>> 1) While it talks about the universal phenomena such as rape it also >>> talks >>> about women's pleasure (a taboo subject in phallo centric order) >>> But I think the best thing about the play is this: >>> it really moves away from the notion of a hegemonic US dominated >>> "feminism" to women's oppression globally. So while one performed and >>> spoke >>> of the Female Genital Mutilation, the other performer on the stage talked >>> about how women's bodies are mutilated and commodified in Western >>> Capitalist >>> society via use of silicon boobs and artificial beauty product and so on >>> many of which are actually very harmful for the body; a parallel in India >>> is >>> the craze to whiten skins (spans both genders but more so on women). >>> >>> So, this shows, that women's bodies whether veiled or open are all >>> products of patriarchy and that is the best msg of the play besides being >>> very sex positive about women taking control of their bodies and refusing >>> to >>> obey patriarchical taboos and laws of pleasure and performance..... >>> >>> Let us think and try to make an "Indian" version of "VAGINA MONOLOGUE", >>> >>> Rinita >>> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Yahoo! >> Homepage<http://in.rd.yahoo.com/tagline_yyi_1/*http://in.yahoo.com/> >> . >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Green Youth Movement" group. >> To post to this group, send an email to greenyo...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<greenyouth%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Green Youth Movement" group. > To post to this group, send an email to greenyo...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB. > > -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send an email to greenyo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB.
