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Review

Eve Ensler rocked the foundations of theater when she debuted her controversial off-off-Broadway show in 1996. To date, The Vagina Monologues are currently performed in 14 different languages in over 30 different countries, as well as travelled across the United States from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and back again.

The Vagina Monolgues are the result of Eve Ensler's interviews with over 300 women about their vaginas. HBO captured both her enormous charisma and the earnestness of the interviews as Ensler performs some highlights of her show and we see interview highlights. From taking back the "C" word to the empowerment of pubic hair to the dominatrix who loves pleasing women to "Everyone needs their Bob" (an average man who enjoys staring at vaginas for hours) to Ensler's euphoric description of the birth of her granddaughter, The Vagina Monologues draws your emotions towards these tenacious women. Eve candidly tells us why she chose certain monologues and new and revealing interviews are woven between each segment. You can not help but feel the positive energy and the pain underneath, even as you laugh out loud.