Empowering women, one monologue at a time
Women’s empowerment is coming to the stage at the Fort Dodge Fine Arts Association Phillips Auditorium this week.
The FDFAA, in collaboration with Fort Dodge Pride Fest, is staging “The Vagina Monologues” by Eve Ensler. “The Vagina Monologues” is a play featuring a series of personal monologues dealing with different aspects of the feminine experience read by a diverse group of women. The play runs about an hour and a half.
The FDFAA production of “The Vagina Monologues” stars Nicole Tracy, Rhiannon Rippke-Koch, Jamie Varangkounh, Alyssa Sparks and Caitlin Delaney Grogan, and is directed by FDFAA Director Shelly Bottorff and FD Pride Fest Organizer Kyrie Borsay.
The show runs at 7 p.m. Thursday through Saturday. Tickets are $15 and are available at the door or can be purchased at Shiny Top Brewing. Part of the proceeds of the ticket sales will go toward the 2023 Fort Dodge Pride Festival.
“The Vagina Monologues” is for mature audiences only, but its messages are ones everyone needs to hear, the women involved say.
Jamie Varangkounh reads “My Angry Vagina,” a scene from “The Vagina Monologues.”
“I think women are inherently afraid to talk about their bodies or to discuss any of the things that we talk about on stage,” Sparks said. “These are real stories of real women that we are sharing with more women to get the word out that it is OK to talk about our bodies. It’s OK to have these weird things happen and to talk about them.”
