TWO PERFORMANCES OF VAGINA MONOLOGUES SCHEDULED

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Student performances of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues are set for 8 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 13, and Saturday, Feb. 14, in Thomas Great Hall. Tickets are $5 for Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore students and $8 for others.

The shows are part of V-Day, a worldwide event instituted by Ensler to raise awareness about violence against women and money to help stop it. Ensler grants licenses to hundreds of groups around the world who produce benefit performances. The international campaign this year is focused on a relief fund to end violence against girls and women in Juarez, Mexico, where more than 300 women and girls have disappeared in the last decade. In addition to contributing to the Juarez fund, the Bryn Mawr College students will also be raising money for the Women's Center of Montgomery County, which recently opened a new office in Bryn Mawr. More information about V-Day and violence against women can be found on the event's Web site at www.vday.org. Last year, the Bryn Mawr College group raised more than $2,000 for Laurel House, a local domestic-violence shelter for women and children, and RAWA, the Revolutionary Association ot the Women of Afghanistan. The students hope to double the amount of money they raise this year.

This is the third consecutive year that Bryn Mawr College students are participating in the V-Day benefit, said co-directors Tegan Georges '05 and Jessie Payson '06. Georges has directed the student production for the past two years, and Payson has performed in and co-produced the show in mid-coast Maine. Over 100 students auditioned for the show, and 20 will be performing in the production. The Body Image Council sponsors the performances as part of Eating Disorder and Body Image Awareness Month.

Ensler wrote The Vagina Monologues in 1998, after she interviewed women around the world about their vaginas. It includes 17 monologues in different women's voices about their experiences. Called "funny and poignant," by The New York Times and "intelligent and courageous," by The Daily News, the play looks at the mystery, humor, pain, power, wisdom, outrage and excitement in women's experiences.

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