UGBC Follows Hit Lip-Dub Video with Stop-Motion Rendition of "The Vagina Monologues"

Robsham - A year after the Undergraduate Government of Boston College's lip-dub version of Coldplay's "Viva la Vida" went viral,** the group is planning to release another crowd-pleaser, a stop-motion animated production of "The Vagina Monologues."

In contrast to past performances, which relied on actors speaking alone on stage, director Kathryn Chase, CSON '12, wants to take a different angle.

"What if we had the vaginas themselves speak, how would they sound?" she asked.

Working vaginal prototypes. An old vagina, left, and a younger vagina, right.

Using advanced claymation technology from movies such as "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," UGBC artists completed masterful clay vaginas, replete with movable labias and harrowing tales.

Sculptor Richard Edwards, A&S '14, used his past experience building a paper mache volcano to design a life-like episode of menstruation.

"The hardest part is getting the vagina to simultaneously shed its youthful innocence as well as the lining of the uterine walls," he explained.

A UGBC official, who spoke on a condition of anonymity because he swore to uphold the secrecy of the group's next project, indicated that a made-for-TV movie was also in the works. The film, "Men in Black and Yellow," stars president Mike Kitlas A&S '12 as an alien-hunting secret agent and past vice president Pat Raab CSOM '12 as an extraterrestrial who eats freshman girls.



**About 30 minutes after this story went to print, UGBC took the original lip dub video down. This is why the Boston College Register is the most independent news source of Boston College.