‘Vagina Monologues’ to be performed in Pittsfield on March 6

PITTSFIELD – More than two dozen women will be performing Eve Ensler’s “The Vagina Monologues” in the auditorium of the First Universalist Church in Pittsfield at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 6.

The church is located on Easy Street, at Pittsfield’s Route 100 intersection.

The participants include a doctor, librarians, artists, students, grandmothers, wives and one male, the director, from all over central Maine. One of the performers is using the experience and companion interviews with the actors as her senior project at Maine Central Institute.

“The Vagina Monologues” is a compelling play that has given a voice to women of all ages all over the world. Balancing the incredibly intimate and the amazingly universal, Ensler’s words have inspired and empowered people and transformed consciousness about women’s bodies and experiences.

Tickets will be available at the door and are $5 for students and $10 for adults.

This year, more than 2,500 benefit productions of “The Vagina Monologues” will take place in 1,116 communities – 719 college events and nearly 400 community events – around the world, including Australia, Belgium, El Salvador (in a women’s prison), Costa Rica, Jamaica, Nigeria, Taiwan, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Ethiopia and all 50 states in the United States.

Organizers around the globe will highlight and raise funds for the 2005 Spotlight Women of Iraq: Under Siege project. The Pittsfield performers will also donate part of the play’s proceeds to the Family Violence Project of Somerset County.