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  • Don't mention the V-word: Uganda bans Monologues

    02/19/2005 5:19:53 PM PST · by MadIvan · 32 replies · 735+ views
    The Observer ^ | February 20, 2005 | Jeevan Vasagar
    It has persuaded women from Detroit to Delhi to celebrate their anatomy, but in Uganda, an attempt to stage The Vagina Monologues has been foiled by the forces of Christian conservatism.American author Eve Ensler's controversial theatre piece, which celebrates female genitals through a series of soliloquies, has been branded 'indecent and tasteless' by a Ugandan government minister, while church groups have described it as pornographic and 'anti-male'. Rarely-used powers of censorship have been reinvoked to demand drastic script alterations, including the deletion of references to lesbianism and the removal of the crucial word 'vagina' from the title. The Vagina Monologues...