The Vachina Monologues Filmvorführung

25. Oktober 2021
19.30 Uhr
(28 min, im Anschluss Q&A)
The Chinese Department of Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou) staged the Chinese debut of »The Vagina Monologues« in December 2003. Since then, this feminist play, which came from the US and has been committed to the elimination of gender-based violence, had incited a vagina hurricane that blew all over mainland China. Zhihe Society of Fudan University, Shanghai Beaver Club, Beijing Bcome Group, all these different crews performed this play in various ways. On campuses they performed, in theatres they performed, in cafes they performed, on the streets they performed, and on public transportation they performed. The Vagina Monologues received many Chinese names: Cloudy Vagina, Our Vaginas, OurSelves and For Vagina’s Sake. All these names have the same so-called »ear-piercing« key word – VAGINA.
»Vagina. I’ve said it«, this is a speaking process as well as an acting process; this is a self-awakening process as well as a public-accepting process; this is a learning-recognizing process as well as a localizing process. After ten years, we could revisit the stories of vaginas. We could talk to the participants, visit current actors and listen to their vagina stories.

Die Festspiele am Plötzensee sind eine Veranstaltungsreihe von Berliner Künstler:innen in Koproduktion mit dem Ballhaus Ost und in Kooperation mit dem Strandbad Plötzensee und dem Korbinian Verlag. Das Projekt ist Teil der Initiative DRAUSSENSTADT, gefördert durch die Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa sowie die Stiftung für Kulturelle Weiterbildung und Kulturberatung.

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