The Humerus Daily

PHILADELPHIA, PA—An advance screening of Jefferson Students Organized Against Rape’s (JeffSOAR’s) version of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues was held for a limited audience for review this past week in Eakins Lounge. The show, put on annually around Valentine’s Day, or V-Day for short, by SOAR’s strikingly large ensemble of former theater kids, marks a celebration of feminism, femininity, and feminine hygiene products. The performance features a mixture of monologues adapted directly from Ensler’s source material and original pieces adapted from the minds of procrastinating medical students. Stated plainly, this production is a full-frontal auditory, visual, and, at times, olfactory experience that needs to be experienced to be believed, especially by any other undercultured, undereducated, and underestrogenated men in the crowd. 

While this reviewer’s Y chromosome increased the number in the room by a factor of infinity, there was no such similar decrease in the quality of the production that aimless theatergoers stuck between the renowned Forrest and Walnut Street Theatres have come to expect. Brash, brazen, and boldly itself, the show rises well above the sum of the parts allotted by its lace mesh budget and marks a triumph for melodramatic spectacles and sodden undies alike. The raunchy performance will be open to the public for one night only on February 15^th at 7 pm in the equally world-renowned Eakins Lounge. Tickets are available for the low, low price of a pack of (preferably new) women’s hygiene products, available at your local corner store and anywhere women are found.