Silver Spring Stage Present VAGINA MONOLOGUES Benefit Performances 5/14-16

Silver Spring Stage is proud to present The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler as a special benefit to the theater for 5 performances only this weekend May 14 to May 16. This exceptional celebration of women and empowerment will move audiences seamlessly from laughter to tears to rejoicing. Silver Spring Stage dedicates this benefit to two veterans of its theater community who succumbed to cancer last year. The proceeds will support Silver Spring Stage and two cancer foundations. The production is directed by Grace Overbeke, Christie Walser, and Rayona Young and features new and familiar actors to the Stage.

Silver Spring Stage is located in the Woodmoor Shopping Center, lower level (next to the CVS) at Colesville Road and University Boulevard. Ticket prices are $20. Performances are Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 8:00 PM and Saturday and Sunday at 2:00 PM. Tickets can be purchased at www.ssstage.org.

Eve Ensler wrote the first draft of The Vagina Monologues in 1996 following interviews she conducted with 200 women about their views on sex, relationships, and violence against women. The interviews began as casual conversations with her friends, who then brought up anecdotes they themselves had been told by other friends with more women contributing to the work. Ensler wrote the piece initially to "celebrate the vagina", which then changed into a movement to stop violence against women. She founded the V-Day movement (www.vday.org) to stop violence against women and girls.

The Vagina Monologues introduces a wildly divergent gathering of female voices in funny and touching testimonials, including a six-year-old girl, a septuagenarian New Yorker, a vagina workshop participant, a woman who witnesses the birth of her granddaughter, a Bosnian survivor of rape, and a feminist happy to have found a man who "liked to look at it."

The Stage's 2009-2010 "Appearances Can Be Deceiving!" season continues with George Bernard Shaw's enchanting Pygmalion (June 4-June 27), and the provocative Fat Pig by Neil LaBute (July 16-Aug. 8)

About Silver Spring Stage
Silver Spring Stage has provided quality, affordable theatre for over 40 years. We are an all-volunteer, non- profit organization and appreciate any contribution to enable us to offer excellent and entertaining productions. Thank you for your interest and support of Silver Spring Stage. All programs at Silver Spring Stage are made possible in part by grants from the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County and the Maryland State Arts Council.

For more information, visit www.ssstage.org.

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