«Vagina monologues» in Moscow
Издание: The New York Times, 11.06.2005
Автор: Sophia Kishkovsky
"wwwvaginamonolog Vaginy," the Russian version of "The Vagina Monologues,"
by Eve Ensler opens tomorrow for a two-performance run at the Hermitage
Theater in Moscow. The play, based on women's stories about the role of
their vaginas in their lives and encompassing topics that range from
childbirth to rape, is especially difficult to render in Russian:
translators often lament that the language for sex is limited to
clinical terms or expletives. Vasily Arkanov, the United States
correspondent for NTV, a Russian television network, said he was
inspired to translate the play after he wrote an article about it for
the Russian version of Elle magazine. He told The Moscow Times that for
the Russian title he ultimately chose to transliterate the English word
"vagina" rather than use the standard Russian equivalent, which he
concluded was too vulgar. Joel Lehtonen, the play's director, told The
Moscow Times that he had had problems securing financing and finding
actresses comfortable enough to speak their explicit lines.
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