Blogger Yelena Shuster reports on this weekend's production.

If Valentine's Day didn't give you enough of an excuse to get vagina-happy, a good option is this year's campus production of the Vagina Monologues. For those of us who have seen the show for the past three years, prepare to be shocked. This is no traditional approach.

The show started with a bang—complete with a marching band and its rendition of Salt N Pepa's "Push It." Girls in gold sequined dresses and purple leggings writhed, shimmied, and humped onstage, against the backdrop of a giant cut-out vagina (acting as convenient stage entrance as well as educational anatomy tool).

The most powerful part of the show is the first hour. Director Casey Llewellyn included original monologues to broaden the conversation Ensler started. As our androgynous, suit-clad host said, "Some women face violence because they don't have vaginas. Some men face violence because they do."

From the Barnard Theatre Department listserve comes this invitation from Christina Myers, the director of yet another campus production of The Vagina Monologues:

"So far, the rehearsals have been a blast and the show has a fresh and different presentation this year. Unfortunately, one of our talented cast members was hired by a theater company out of state to star in Romeo and Juliette. We now need to fill the role of 'My Vagina was My Village', a dramatic piece about a Bosnian war victim. I have attached the monologue."

Bwog couldn't resist taking a peak at the script, but it hasn't been quite sure what to say since. The opening reads, uh, pastoral enough:

"My vagina was green, water soft pink fields, cow mooing sun resting sweet boyfriend touching lightly with soft piece of blonde straw."

After that it gets a bit more...grizzly. And literal. Then somewhat metaphorical. Then very, very literal again. The entire scene is reproduced below the jump...if you're titillated by this sort of thing and feel you have what it takes to audition for the part of the aforementioned Bosnian, contact Christina at chrimye (at) gmail.com. The performances will be Feb. 13th, 14th, and 16th, the tech rehearsals, Feb. 8th and 9th.