The Vagina Monologues 1999

Opened: October 3, 1999
Closing: January 26, 2003

The Vagina Monologues - 1999 - Off-Broadway History , Info & More

by Eve Ensler



An Obie Award-winning whirlwind tour of a forbidden zone, THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES introduces a wildly divergent gathering of female voices, 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."

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The Vagina Monologues FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

What productions of The Vagina Monologues have there been?
The Vagina Monologues has had 1 productions including Off-Broadway which opened in 1999.

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