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templatively silent. Kate Costello channels a
Native American women with an abusive
husband who braids his hair crooked as her
only retaliation against him; Kerri Aris, Molly
Cambone, Talene Injeian, Nicole Madar, and
Ashleigh Whitfield together performed “They
Beat the Girl Out of My Boy” about
transgender issues; Mairead Delaney and
Laura Nipe presented the monologue about
Bosnian woman in rape camps; and Emily
Lanzo recited “The Little Coochi Snorcher
That Could”, a woman’s memories as a child
that involved her vagina including impaling
it on a bedpost, being raped by her father’s
best friend, and eventually finding joy in her
vagina with the help of an older woman.
These serious and sad monologues were
not overwhelmed by the more outrageous
monologues but there was a good balance
so that the audience was able to laugh at one
point and pay close attention the next.
One of the most memorable was “The
Woman Who Liked to Make Vaginas Happy”
that Alexa Mullen performed with the help
of the narrators. Mullen was a lawyer turned
dominatrix for women who lists off different
types of orgasms including the Harry
Potter, Irish Catholic, Jewish, African-American,
and Obama orgasms and ending in a
demonstration of the triple orgasm.
The evening wrapped up with the 2009
V-Day Spotlight Monologue with an introduction
by Missy Alexander about how global
climate change and overuse of resources
contributes to the abuse of women in many
countries like those women benefitting from
the V-Day Spotlight Charity of Choice: The
Women of the Democratic Republic of the
Congo, which received 10% of the night’s
proceeds. Amy Kate Byrne was the one to
perform this final monologue.
By Sarah Holmes
“V-Day is a global movement to end violence
against women and girls” and through
production like this raises awareness and
funds to help women across the globe gain
complete freedom. To read more about their
mission and events visit newsite.vday.org.
The Vagina Monologues have become synonymous
with this movement and its mission.
Before its involvement with the movement
and still now, the monologues are being
performed across the country in many
cities and on college campuses and have been
since 1996. They have been performed at
Marist for 11 years; MCCTA picked up it up
first, running the performance for 9 years,
and RSC picked it up for its 10th anniversary.
This year seniors Emily Lanzo and Jessica
Peterson produced it for their capping
project.
“We chose to do this for our capping
project because of what this show means to
us. Jess and I have done this show multiple
times and were shocked when no one was
picking it up to put it on this year,” said
Lanzo.
Besides Lanzo and Peterson, there were
two directors, Wesley Barnes and Matt
Wolfe, two stage managers, and plenty of
other people helping with ticket sales, the
bake sale, and raffles, as well as those running
the technical equipment for the evening
which went very well.
The amount of people in attendance was
proof enough of the draw of the monologues
and the good advertisement on behalf
of those involved.
“I wanted to break fire codes with the
amount of people attending, and we did
that,” said Lanzo.
Photos: Chris Turkiewicz
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