Summerland: Vagina Monologues controversial in B.C. town
The Vagina Monologues might be too controversial for some residents of one British Columbia town, almost 15 years after its New York premiere.
The award-winning play premieres on Friday evening in Summerland, B.C., as a fundraising event for the Penticton and Area Women’s Centre.
The play, composed of several frank and sometimes humorous monologues about women’s issues and sexuality, is performed in thousands of venues every year, frequently as a fundraiser for battered women’s shelters and sexual assault phone lines.
Volunteers in the Okanagan community in the southern Interior of B.C. have been working on their production for months, looking forward to their big debut.
But then producer Monica Sahlmark got some disturbing news — flyers posted around Summerland advertising the event had been torn down.
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