Eve Ensler, the author of the much talked about Vagina Monologue , has declared Mumbai to be a ‘vagina city’, and now Alyque Padamsee wants people to hear the other side. “I loved Vagina Monologues but, I thought it was too one sided, with disparaging comments about the male organ and men. Men just didn’get to say anything in that play,” says Padamsee. As a ‘homage’ to the cult play, the advertising and theatre guru is busy with directing Penis Dialogues . Laced with humour, the play talks about the organ as an instrument of procreation, recreating and urination. “One vignette has four men in a urinal and one of them can’t pee. He has the shy bladder syndrome or paruresis,” informs Nitin Batra, one of the three playwrights of Penis Dialogues. Anish Trivedi and Pawan Kumar are the other two writers and the ensemble includes Gary Richardson, Bhairavi Goswami, Gaurav Sharma and Madhuri Bhatia.This post and my comments in response illustrate my beef with “Vagina Monologues” - not only is the play disparaging towards men and discards them as nothing important in a fulfilling relationship, but ultimately it does reduce a woman’s self to identifying with her vagina - like I am not my brain or my heart, but my vagina, yeah riiight! Posted by shanti at March 12, 2004 2:43 PM
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