Women perform for vulnerable peers

Warwick University students and members of the university’s Anti-Sexism Society, Sophie Rees and Rhiannon Roberts, are co-producing a performance of The Vagina Monologues, with fellow student Kate Arnold directing.

The group, who have selected a cast made up mostly of theatre students, are donating 80 per cent of profits from the show to the Coventry Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre (Crasac), while 20 per cent will go to the international charity V-Day, which was set up by Eve Ensler, the writer of the Vagina Monologues, and works to stop violence against women and girls across the world.

Sophie said: “It’s more important now than ever to support vulnerable women because, as with all charities, the ones which help such women are facing funding cuts.”

The Vagina Monologues will be performed at Bath Place Community Venture in Avenue Road, Leamington, on Friday March 9 at 7.30pm, while additional performances are taking place at the university campus in Gibbet Hill, Coventry, on Thursday March 1 and Friday March 2 at the same time.

Tickets cost £6 (£5 students) and are available on the door.

Crasac provides a confidential support and counselling service run by women for women and girls across Coventry and Warwickshire who have been raped, sexually abused or assaulted.