‘Vagina Monologues’ this weekend at the Plough

‘Monologues’ set this weekend

V-Day Cambria will present a two-night-only benefit of Eve Ensler’s award-winning play “The Vagina Monologues” on Valentine’s Day weekend at The Pewter Plough Playhouse. Performances are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday.

Tickets to the play, directed by Kelli Howard, are $10 each. All proceeds will benefit RISE, a nonprofit organization that serves both victims of intimate partner violence and sexual assault/abuse, as well as their loved ones.

V-Day is a global activist movement to end violence against women and girls. Its campaign, “One Billion Rising: Revolution,” started three years ago as a call for women who have survived domestic violence to demand an end to violence.

“The Vagina Monologues” is an episodic play written by Ensler that, according to her website, “introduces a wildly divergent gathering of female voices, including a six-year-old girl, a septuagenarian New Yorker, a vagina workshop participant, a woman who witnesses the birth of her granddaughter, a Bosnian survivor of rape and a feminist happy to have found a man who ‘liked to look at it.’ ”

The play won an Obie Award, or Off-Broadway Theater Award, in 1996 for Best New Play, and Ensler received the Guggenheim Fellowship Award for Playwriting in 1999.

Author Thompson at Coalesce

Author Dottie Doak Thompson will appear at a book signing from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 13, at Coalesce bookstore, 845 Main St. in Morro Bay.

Thompson’s “No One Left to Ask” traces her pre-Revolutionary War family, which includes memorable characters — including a minister who performed drive-up buggy weddings and a grandfather who helped fight Chief Crazy Horse — and the story of her family’s struggles through the Great Depression.

Thompson, a former court reporter, also appeared in more than a dozen productions with the San Luis Obispo Little Theatre.

Details: 772-2880.

Cambrian staff

This story was originally published February 10, 2016 at 9:39 AM with the headline "‘Vagina Monologues’ this weekend at the Plough."