Seeing the Vagina Monologues preformed and reading it was two completely different experiences. I feel that the Monologues needs to be preformed to be affective. I got so much more out of watching Eve Ensler perform then I did reading. There was so much emotion in the performance and I feel that I read it differently then what I heard. I read “The Flood” as a very sad and emotional story from an elder woman, but hearing it I heard a funny and bit sarcastic story. Eve is defiantly the only person that knows how the interviews went because she personally saw the women and had a one on one conversation with them.  Seeing the Monologues preformed gave me the emotion in the story and showed me how the story was supposed to be depicted and not how I interpreted it. Since I was able to hear and see the Vagina Monologues performed it made it more relatable because Eve told the story behind the women and gave some background information allowing us to really see that the monologues are from real women and they are people just like you and me.