What's vagina in Marathi?

Updated On: 23 April, 2009 07:28 AM IST | | Tinaz Nooshian

That and much more will be answered as the Marathi version of Vagina Monologues hits the Mumbai stage

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That and much more will be answered as the Marathi version of Vagina Monologues hits the Mumbai stage

On Tuesday, an auditorium full of Maharashtrian middle-class theatre enthusiasts were asked to yell 'vagina!' in a moment of collective liberation.

Yonichya Maneechya Gujgoshti (Intimate Conversations of the Vagina), the Marathi translation of the celebrated and controversial play, The Vagina Monologues, saw its first real performance at Prabhadevi's Ravindra Natya Mandir, after a test-drive private showing held earlier this month.

Adapted by feminist writer-activist Vandana Khare from playwright Eve Ensler's work on female sexuality, the 11 monologues played out by a rotating seven-member, all-women cast (Sangeeta Pitle, Neelima Deshpande, Megha Kulkarni, Vandana Khare, Savitri Medhatul, director Geetanjali Kulkarni, Suhita Thatte) discussed menstruation, violence, dizzying teenage sexual encounters, orgasm, childbirth, even lesbian sex workers with an audience spanning 20 year olds to a 75-year-old gentlemen, who admitted "mala dhakka basla" (I was taken aback) at the end of the two-hour performance.

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