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Loyola University Blocks Production Of Play
-Concerned About Language In 'The Vagina Monologues'
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Posted on 01/24/2004 8:01:03 PM PST by chance33_98
Loyola University Blocks Production Of Play President Concerned About Language In 'The Vagina Monologues'
POSTED: 4:25 PM CST January 24, 2004 UPDATED: 4:36 PM CST January 24, 2004
NEW ORLEANS -- Loyola University in New Orleans has blocked a campus production of "The Vagina Monologues," apparently after the Jesuit school's president voiced concerns about the play's language.
Erica Ciccarone is an English major who had planned to stage the play as a fund-raiser for women's groups. She says school president, the Reverend William Byron, made it clear in a meeting last week that the production was off.
The production had been planned for Valentine's Day, and a casting call was underway. Proceeds would have gone to the Loyola's Women's Issues Organization.
Loyola representative Kristine Lelong confirmed that the play would not be produced on campus.
"The Vagina Monologues," written by Eve Ensler, was an off-Broadway hit in New York after opening in October 1999. The play explores issues and perceptions related to women's sexual anatomy.
Some faculty members were angered that the play was barred at a Jesuit institution that celebrates intellectual exchange and social justice.
TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: academia; catholicschools; loyola; loyolau; smut
To: chance33_98
O'Reilly had a guest from a high school that palns to show it.
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posted on
01/24/2004 8:05:03 PM PST
by
Consort
To: Consort; CAtholic Family Association; Land of the Irish
Good for Loyola.
To: chance33_98
Has anyone written The Viagra Rants yet?
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posted on
01/24/2004 8:19:26 PM PST
by
soundbits
To: soundbits
My son goes there. This is good news.
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posted on
01/24/2004 8:28:24 PM PST
by
tbird5
To: soundbits
How about the Vagina Nags.
To: chance33_98
Mrs. clintonh8r is a Loyola New Orleans alumna. She will be very pleased to hear this.
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posted on
01/24/2004 9:00:25 PM PST
by
clintonh8r
("Hugh" and "series" are SO last year....)
To: chance33_98
I am ashamed to admit to watching maybe 2/3rds of "The Vagina Monologues" on HBO one night. Eve Ensler is mentally ill and failing to put this on at Loyola is no error.
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posted on
01/24/2004 9:09:21 PM PST
by
Wally_Kalbacken
(Seldom right, never in doubt!)
To: chance33_98
Huh? What could shock a jesuit?
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posted on
01/24/2004 9:12:11 PM PST
by
Bonaparte
To: chance33_98
"Funding for womens grups" = "using Catholic facilities to help pay for alughtering children."
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posted on
01/24/2004 9:13:57 PM PST
by
dangus
To: chance33_98
Well, it's about time some Catholic school administrator just said no.
Doesn't this "play" have an episode concerning an adult woman seducing a young (13 yr old) teenage girl?
It shouldn't have even gotten its toe in the door at a Catholic school, but at least it didn't get any further than that.
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posted on
01/24/2004 9:17:39 PM PST
by
livius
To: chance33_98
Loyola University Blocks Production Of Play President Concerned About Language In 'The Vagina Monologues' And in another story, the university is sponsoring a stage rendition of the Rocky Horror Picture Show.....
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posted on
01/24/2004 9:44:55 PM PST
by
Nachum
To: Nachum
Can you give a link?
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posted on
01/24/2004 9:49:37 PM PST
by
Romulus
(Nothing really good ever happened after 1789.)
To: Romulus
LOL.
I would, if they really were putting the show on....
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posted on
01/24/2004 9:53:18 PM PST
by
Nachum
To: chance33_98
YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK:
Monday, Jan. 26, 2004 Sex Education in Amherst A high school takes on a controversial play By NATHAN THORNBURGH This Feb. 14, V won't stand for just valentine at Amherst Regional High School in Amherst, Mass. The local school board and superintendent last month approved a student request to stage The Vagina Monologues the night before Valentine's Day as part of a national campaign to call attention to violence against women. The theater piece, written by Eve Ensler, has played off-Broadway and in all-star benefits around the country and the world on Valentine's Day for the past six years. But this is believed to be the first sanctioned high school performance of the play, a collection of readings on such topics as homosexuality, rape and various parts of the female anatomy. Conservative critics like Fox News's Bill O'Reilly have joined local residents in assailing the school board's decision. "The girls who will be up there faking orgasms onstage wouldn't even be old enough to see When Harry Met Sally in the movie theater," fumes Amherst resident Larry Kelley, who read the play after he heard of the high school's plans. "But it isn't the orgasms or even the use of the C word that gets me. Rather, it's the favorable description of sex between a 24-year-old woman and a 16-year-old woman. This is inappropriateness squared for high school students." So far, however, this liberal college town which once scuttled a performance of West Side Story at the same high school after some residents complained that its portrayal of Hispanics was insensitive appears to be standing firm. At a town-hall meeting last week on the controversy, opponents of The Vagina Monologues were outnumbered by supporters.
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posted on
01/25/2004 1:44:31 AM PST
by
ppaul
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