Deeply personal accounts of pleasurable and unwanted sexual experiences are coming to the stage again next weekend in The Vagina Monologues.  

After a successful first weekend, Lismore Theatre Company expects to see full houses for the play’s last shows on December 5, 6, 7 and 8 at Rochdale Theatre in Goonellabah.

The award winning play consists of a selection monologues written by Eve Ensler after interviewing 200 women of varying ages, backgrounds, cultures and experiences. 

The 12 monologues chosen by Director Sharon Brodie for Lismore Theatre Company’s latest production are delivered by nine local women actors.

‘My short skirt’ is a powerful piece delivered by Kashmir Miller, the youngest member of the cast. 

Her piece, she says “is very important to everyone young and old who has had assumptions made about how they look and act”.

The individual stories are accompanied by group pieces where the actors provide the responses to questions such as “If your vagina could speak, what would it say?” and a list of the very funny names women call their vaginas. 

There is also brief bridging narration with lots of facts that will make audiences laugh, feel sad and reflect. 

This is the fifth time over twenty years that LTC has produced The Vagina Monologues.

As long term stage manager Jos Wright says “it’s as relevant today as when it was first staged”.

The show on Friday, December 6 will have Auslan interpreters.

Bookings can be made at http://www.lismoretheatrecompany.org.au

Pantomime audition call out: Audition callout: Is your child the next acting star?

Children and teenagers who would like to be on stage in the pantomine Puss in Thongs are invited to audition on December 7.

Puss in Thongs is the next children’s production of Lismore Theatre Company (LTC) and will be coming to the Rochdale Theatre in the April 2020 school

holidays.