Vagina monologues don't go down well in Kyrgyztan...

A stage production in Kyrgyzstan hopes to serve as a watershed moment in a nascent Central Asian women’s rights movement. 

The production in question is The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler, an episodic play based on interviews with over 200 women relating how they view their bodies, sexual experiences, sexual abuse and sexual violence. An English-language version of the show made its debut in late March in Bishkek. On April 11, the show opened its Russian-language version.

Central Asia is not known as a region where women have tried to assert their rights. Accordingly, the staging of The Vagina Monologues has already generated a fair amount of controversy. More...

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