Shakespeare by the Sea brought back the acclaimed and controversially-titled show The Vagina Monologues for an encore presentation at The Chicken Box on August 29th. The play's proceeds will help fund another presentation of Twelfth Night again this fall.The Vagina Monologues title shouldn't scare anyone away. The show is, in fact, a very thoughtful and well-written piece playwright history, and has launched a serious movement, though sometimes deemed femme, since its' release in 1996 as an off-Broadway production in The Big Apple.Now a little bit of New York City sat at The Box on Nantucket. Prior to the show, audience members got a chance to mingle with one another over hors d'oeuvres and Stirrings Peach Martinis. Even the Stillers were on hand to support their daughter, Amy Stiller, as she took on a part in the six-woman show. Susan McGinnis, founder of Seaside Shakespeare Company, took a spot on-stage for the tribute to women around the world. “We performed The Vagina Monologues in May, and we had so many people asking about bringing it back, so we did,” she said, “It’s very interesting, and it’s so taboo. When we think we’ve broken down all of the barriers in our country, we really haven’t.”She continued, “We had a man saying it was the most powerful night of theater he’d ever been to.”Director of The Vagina Monologues, Laura Gallagher Byrne, was very excited to see the production make another appearance on Nantucket. “I joked with Susan McGinnis when she first asked me to do this, I couldn’t even say ‘vagina’. Now, watching all of the women and the production, I feel so moved when I see it,” said Byrne.“I directed Cinderella with young people and then I directed this,” she contrasted, “I think this is an amazing work that deserves to be done again and again.”
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