If you walked near the Ula Love Doughty Carousel Theatre Feb. 13 or 14 it is extremely likely that you may have heard the booming chants of vagina expletives echoing louder.

The Women’s Coordinating Counsel hosted this year’s “Vagina Monologues.” Directed by Morgan Hardy and presented by UT female students, the award-winning play is based on V-Day founder and playwright Eve Ensler’s interviews with over 200 women. For more than 12 years, “The Vagina Monologues” has given voice to women silenced by troubling experiences and emotions.

The Vagina Monologues is a part of V-Day, a global movement to end violence against women. V-Day serves as a catalyst in promoting events to increase awareness and to strengthen ongoing anti-violence efforts.

The performance opened with darkened lights that brightened as voices came from the audience and onto the stage.

“Vagina,” said one of the performers. “It sounds like a disease or maybe a medical instrument at best … certainly not something you really want to discuss.”

One monologue began as an old lady, who, first recoiling at the idea of talking about her “down there,” began to explain about her past experiences with “flooding.”

In the monologue, she spoke about an attractive boy named Andy and their date in his brand new Chevy Bel-Air. As she sat there staring at her knees in his car, she was taken by surprise as Andy kissed her. The performer described the kiss as “passionate and exciting,” at least until she “flooded” on his car seat. Andy was appalled and drove her home without another word.

From that day on she kept her “down there” locked under her house not wanting to think about or expose anyone else to her embarrassing flooding problem. She never spoke about it again until she was interviewed in her 70s and let her secrets spill.

“It was really enlightening,” said Ashton Monks, sophomore in pre-dental. “You could hear and talk about things that aren’t normally discussed. It was nice to be able to listen to that and know that it was OK.”

They divided each monologue with a fun fact or an introduction.

One cast member asked the audience if they were aware that the clitoris is the only body part designed specifically for pleasure. She ended the statement with a snappy one liner, “Who would want a handgun when you can have a semi-automatic?”

While the crowd laughed one minute, the mood turned very serious the next. The crowd appeared to be speechless when a woman claimed she did not have a vagina.

“It’s not there,” the performer said. “It’s not a vagina, it is a cause. It’s the mad look in their eyes. It’s the thrusting, the tearing … but don’t be fooled, our vaginas are prepared. We still dance. We have nothing to lose.”

“I get chills when we get to the part of women being raped,” Johnna Kitts, cast member and senior in psychology, said. “The play has the humor and everything but I think the most important part is how it still raises awareness.”