{"id":159742,"date":"2013-07-16T07:14:02","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T14:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=159742"},"modified":"2013-07-16T07:14:02","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T14:14:02","slug":"play-tests-chinas-sexual-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/07\/play-tests-chinas-sexual-limits\/","title":{"rendered":"Play Tests China&#8217;s Sexual Limits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the New York Times,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/07\/17\/world\/asia\/17iht-letter17.html?_r=0\"> <strong>Didi Kirsten Tatlow reports on a new play in Beijing<\/strong><\/a> that is pushing the boundaries of sexual expression:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eveensler.org\/plays\/the-vagina-monologues\/\">Eve Ensler\u2019s \u201cThe Vagina Monologues,\u201d<\/a> with an English title that makes reference to the feminist classic \u201cOur Bodies, Ourselves\u201d \u2014 its Chinese title translates as \u201cThe Way of the Vagina\u201d \u2014 the taboo-busting \u201cOur Vaginas, Ourselves\u201d was first staged in January at an L.G.B.T. center in Beijing before an audience of 50, said its producer, Ji Hang.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;] It has been a hit. Since January, the amateur actresses and playwrights have performed it about 10 times in Beijing, Tianjin and Xiamen, to enthusiastic audiences numbering up to 150, who squeeze into small venues, sharing chairs and fanning themselves, as on a recent evening in the MOMA arts district of Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>But their performances have been limited in scale. The play has only been staged in unofficial venues because it was unlikely to get the necessary script approval from the authorities to show in official theaters, said Ms. Ji, the producer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe really want to enter the mainstream theater scene, but it\u2019s impossible because the scripts would have to be censored,\u201d she said. The subject matter is far too edgy to pass, she said. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/07\/17\/world\/asia\/17iht-letter17.html?_r=0\"><strong>Source<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/world\/article\/0,8599,1906127,00.html\">Vagina Monologues was performed in Beijing and Shanghai <\/a>in 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the New York Times, Didi Kirsten Tatlow reports on a new play in Beijing that is pushing the boundaries of sexual expression: Inspired by Eve Ensler\u2019s \u201cThe Vagina Monologues,\u201d with an English title that makes reference to the feminist classic \u201cOur Bodies, Ourselves\u201d \u2014 its Chinese title translates as \u201cThe Way of the Vagina\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20,14744,14745,14746,5],"tags":[5471,2216,6275],"class_list":["post-159742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-level-2-article","category-level-3-article","category-level-4-article","category-society","tag-sexuality","tag-theater","tag-womens-rights","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Play Tests China&#039;s Sexual Limits<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/07\/play-tests-chinas-sexual-limits\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Play Tests China&#039;s Sexual Limits\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In the New York Times, Didi Kirsten Tatlow reports on a new play in Beijing that is pushing the boundaries of sexual expression: Inspired by Eve Ensler\u2019s \u201cThe Vagina Monologues,\u201d with an English title that makes reference to the feminist classic \u201cOur Bodies, Ourselves\u201d \u2014 its Chinese title translates as \u201cThe Way of the Vagina\u201d [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/07\/play-tests-chinas-sexual-limits\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"China Digital Times (CDT)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ChinaDigitalTimes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-07-16T14:14:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/CDT-logo.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"186\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"177\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sophie Beach\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cdt\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@cdt\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sophie Beach\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/07\/play-tests-chinas-sexual-limits\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/07\/play-tests-chinas-sexual-limits\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Sophie Beach\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#\/schema\/person\/7f19e31b674d57a7dc20aab8e908c663\"},\"headline\":\"Play Tests China&#8217;s Sexual Limits\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-07-16T14:14:02+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-07-16T14:14:02+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/07\/play-tests-chinas-sexual-limits\/\"},\"wordCount\":223,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"sexuality\",\"theater\",\"women's rights\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Culture &amp; 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