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Leila Radan
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWcS77Wfji0"]YouTube - "My Vagina Was My Village"[/ame]
Vagina Monologues
V-Day is a global movement to end violence against women and girls that raises funds and awareness through benefit productions of Playwright/Founder Eve Ensler's award winning play "The Vagina Monologues". For more detailed information about V-Day, its work and outreach, please visit their official site.
On Thursday, March 6th, the official V-Day SF 2008 production of "The Vagina Monologues" took place in the Castro Theatre. The event was a success and the actresses performed in front of a packed house. Iranian/Danish actress Leila Radan performed "My Vagina Was My Village" where she portrayed a Bosnian woman who was gang raped by soldiers.
The intro to the monologue is as follows:
"Bosnian women refugees were interviewed during the war in Yugoslavia, in refugee camps and centers. Twenty to seventy thousand women were raped in the middle of Europe as a systematic tactic of war.
It was shocking to see how little people did to stop it. But, then again, in the United States, each year, about two hundred thousand women are raped, which is another kind of war. This monologue is based on one woman's story. We do it tonight for that woman and the extraordinary women of Bosnia and Kosovo."
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWcS77Wfji0"]YouTube - "My Vagina Was My Village"[/ame]
Vagina Monologues
V-Day is a global movement to end violence against women and girls that raises funds and awareness through benefit productions of Playwright/Founder Eve Ensler's award winning play "The Vagina Monologues". For more detailed information about V-Day, its work and outreach, please visit their official site.
On Thursday, March 6th, the official V-Day SF 2008 production of "The Vagina Monologues" took place in the Castro Theatre. The event was a success and the actresses performed in front of a packed house. Iranian/Danish actress Leila Radan performed "My Vagina Was My Village" where she portrayed a Bosnian woman who was gang raped by soldiers.
The intro to the monologue is as follows:
"Bosnian women refugees were interviewed during the war in Yugoslavia, in refugee camps and centers. Twenty to seventy thousand women were raped in the middle of Europe as a systematic tactic of war.
It was shocking to see how little people did to stop it. But, then again, in the United States, each year, about two hundred thousand women are raped, which is another kind of war. This monologue is based on one woman's story. We do it tonight for that woman and the extraordinary women of Bosnia and Kosovo."