The Undergraduate Women’s Council (UWC) will give a performance of “The Vagina Monologues” this spring.

Auditions will be Jan. 19 to 21 from 5 to 10 p.m. at the Lindsey Auditorium in Sturm Hall. A sign-up sheet is posted at the Women’s Studies office in Sturm Hall, room 419.

According to UWC Vice President Andrea Love, the play is in conjunction with the V-Day College Campaign. V-Day is a movement to raise awareness about violence against women as well as to end it.

Love said that profits from the play will be donated to a nonprofit organization “to help women who are dealing with some kind of violence either domestic or sexual.”

For the auditions, Love said those trying out should either prepare a two minute monologue or read a monologue already prepared by the group. Being in this play will require some commitment, Love said, as performers will have to devote four hours per week with three of those hours spent Sunday afternoons at the Lindsey Auditorium.

There are three new monologues that were added this year, one of them specifically for men, so Love encourages male students to audition for the play as well.

Winner of the Obie Award, “The Vagina Monologues,” compiled by performer and playwright, Eve Ensler, is a collection of more than 200 interviews and narratives on how women view their bodies. In addition to humorous narratives such as, “If Your Vagina Got Dressed, What Would It Wear?”, the play also explores gang rape in war camps and cultural practices that harm women.

“It is important we do these events because women’s bodies and openly discussing them is still a taboo in our country,” Love said. “People still snicker when someone says vagina.”

The UWC is the feminist/women’s empowerment group on campus. According to Love, the organization has been going strong for the past three years and aside from doing “The Vagina Monologues,” is planning a women’s film festival every Wednesday in May.

For more information about play auditions or the UWC, contact Andrea Love at alove@du.edu.