© Lee Celano/ReutersPlaywright Eve Ensler (front center) and the cast members of “The Vagina Monologues” in New Orleans, La., April 12, 2008.
Students at Washington University in St. Louis have erased the "vagina" part of
The Vagina Monologues - instead calling it
The [Blank] Monologues - in order to be inclusive of other genitals.
"In adapting this show to become more gender inclusive, this year's audience members, regardless of how they identified, were able to more strongly connect with the impactful monologues," stated a
piece in the college newspaper,
The Student Life. "Thirty performers spoke 20 different pieces, all centering around sexuality, sexual violence, body image and more."
The piece further explains that "having a vagina and being a woman are not mutually exclusive, and lessons learned during the performance are important for everyone, no matter their gender identity."
Comment: One dark possibility is that Hassani was selected afterwards to fit with a script.
But the show is presumably as its creators claim: a send-up of Israelis' obsession with terror.
Which leaves this a freakishly hilarious coincidence.
When Zionisms collide!
This show has it all: terror, entertainment, LGBT-ness, Muslim migrants... and the Israeli security services, of course, saving the day.