Firehouse Theatre Project Presents Reading Of The Vagina Monologues 3/27

The Firehouse Theatre Project is pleased to announce a benefit reading of Eve Ensler's award winning play The Vagina Monologues, for two nights only, March 27 & 28 at 8:00 p.m. at the Firehouse Theatre.

A reception will be held before each show beginning at 6:45 pm. We will have lovely musical guests and artists from the Richmond area joining us during the reception: Lydia Ooghe, Alison Self and The Bird and Her Consort. The reception will also include food donated by local restaurants. The reception is included in the "suggested donation" price of $20. Tickets are available at the door only, and all proceeds go to benefit RAINN (Rape, Abuse, Incest National Network) & to V-Day's Spotlight Women in Haiti.

The performance will begin at 8:00 pm and features monologues performed by women from around the Greater Richmond area. Firehouse Theatre Project's presentation of The Vagina Monologues is a local effort within the worldwide context of the 2011 V-Day Campaign.

What are The Vagina Monologues?
Hailed by The New York Times as "funny" and "poignant" and by the Daily News as
"intelligent" and "courageous," The Vagina Monologues, which was first performed off-
Broadway by Ms. Ensler, dives into the mystery, humor, pain, power, wisdom, outrage and
excitement buried in women's experiences. Ms. Ensler has performed the play to great acclaim
throughout the world - from Zagreb to Santa Barbara, from London to Seattle, from Jerusalem to Oklahoma City. Villard Books/Random House first published The Vagina Monologues, which
includes a foreword by Gloria Steinem, in February 1998. A special edition was released in hard
cover and paperback in February 2008 in honor of V-Day's ten year anniversary.

What is V-Day?
V-Day is a global activist movement to stop violence against women and girls. V-Day is a
catalyst that promotes creative events to increase awareness, raise money and revitalize the spirit of existing anti-violence organizations. V-Day generates broader attention for the fight to stop violence against women and girls, including rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation
(FGM) and sex slavery.

Through V-Day campaigns, local volunteers and college students produce annual benefit
performances of The Vagina Monologues, A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer, Any
One Of Us: Words From Prison and screenings of V-Day's documentary Until The Violence
Stops, and the PBS documentary What I Want My Words To Do To You, to raise awareness and
funds for anti-violence groups within their own communities. In 2010, over 5400 V-Day benefit
events took place produced by volunteer activists in the U.S. and around the world, educating
millions of people about the reality of violence against women and girls.

Performance is just the beginning. V-Day stages large-scale benefits and produces innovative
gatherings, films and campaigns to educate and change social attitudes towards violence against
women including the documentary Until The Violence Stops; community briefings on the missing
and murdered women of Juárez, Mexico; the December 2003 V-Day delegation trip to Israel,
Palestine, Egypt and Jordan; the Afghan Women's Summit; the March 2004 delegation to India;
the Stop Rape Contest; the Indian Country Project; Love Your Tree; the June 2006 two-week
festival of theater, spoken word, performance and community events UNTIL THE VIOLENCE
STOPS: NYC ; the 2008, V-Day 10-year anniversary events V TO THE TENTH at the New
Orleans Arena and Louisiana Superdome, the Stop Raping Our Greatest Resource: Power To The
Women and Girls of the Democratic Republic of Congo Campaign; the V-Girls Campaign and
the V-Men Campaign which launched in 2010.

In Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, V-Day commits ongoing support to build movements and
anti-violence networks. Working with local organizations, V-Day provided hard-won funding that
helped open the first shelters for women in Egypt and Iraq; sponsored annual workshops and
three national campaigns in Afghanistan; convened the "Confronting Violence" conference of
South Asian women leaders; and donated satellite-phones to Afghan women to keep lines of
communication open and action plans moving forward. V-Day was instrumental in the founding
of Karama, a program working in Egypt, Sudan, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Jordan, Syria and
Lebanon that works to build upon and strengthen efforts to end violence against women by
bringing together local women's organizations and other civil society groups in collaboration,
analysis and advocacy at national, regional and international levels.

The V-Day movement is growing at a rapid pace throughout the world, in 140 countries from
Europe to Asia, Africa and the Caribbean and all of North America. V-Day, a non-profit
corporation, distributes funds to grassroots, national and international organizations and programs
that work to stop violence against women and girls. In 2001, V-Day was named one of Worth
Magazine's "100 Best Charities," in 2006 one of Marie Claire Magazine's Top Ten Charities, and in 2010 was named as one of the Top-Rated organizations on GreatNonprofits. In twelve years,
the V-Day movement has raised over $75 million and reached over 300 million people.
The 'V' in V-Day stands for Victory, Valentine and Vagina.

To learn more about V-Day and its campaigns visit www.vday.org.

What is a V-Day Campaign?
A V-Day Campaign is a catalyst for mobilizing women and men to heighten awareness about
violence against women and girls. By creating this global community, V-Day strives to empower
women to find their collective voices and demand an end to the violence that affects one in three
women in the U.S and around the world.

WHERE
Firehouse Theatre Project
1609 W. Broad Street
Richmond, Va. 23220
804-355-2001
www.firehousetheatre.org
Also on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and Blogspot.
WHEN
Sunday, March 27 & Monday, March 28, 2011
TICKETS
Suggested donation of $20.00 at the door.
All proceeds go to benefit RAINN (Rape, Abuse, Incest National Network) & to V-Day's Spotlight Women in Haiti.

CAST AND CREW
Tad Burrell, Technical Director
Jessica Fulbright, Producer
Carol Piersol, Artistic Director

 

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