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How The Vagina Monologues is far more than a women centric play

The path breaking show The Vagina Monologues, debuted here in 2003. Since then, it has enthralled and jolted audiences.

Kaizaad Kotwal first watched American playwright Eve Ensler's critically acclaimed production, The Vagina Monologues, in the US in 1997. The audience response blew him away. It was exactly the sort of women centric work he and his mother, theatre veteran Mahabanoo Mody Kotwal, wanted to highlight with their company, Poor box Productions. "It was as if they were at a cricket or football match," he recalls, describing the powerful impact the

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