Diana Law let her hair down while performing “the triple orgasm” in last week’s productions of “The Vagina Monologues.”

Audience members were delighted as she lost her breath and lit up a cigarette onstage.

One audience favorite was “My Angry Vagina,” which claimed that the vagina would prefer if women stopped shoving things in there and trying to clean it up.

The monologue also comically claimed that the vagina would like more luxurious gynecology exams, rather than having “nasty, cold duck lips” inserted in them to conduct examinations.

Amy Colby-Rybicki, president of the NIU Women’s Law Caucus, not only produced NIU’s staging of the monologues, but also participated. She is passionate about the V-Day campaign and feels strongly that putting this production on is a good way to eliminate the problems out there.

“The whole reason I am in law is to make a difference,” she said. “Sitting back and talking about it over tea does nothing.”

Two of the three performances were sold out. An additional 50 chairs were ordered to fulfill the ticket requests for Friday’s performance. All the proceeds from the show will be donated to area programming that works to stop violence against women and girls.

In writing the monologues, Eve Ensler interviewed more than 200 women to share their stories. Several monologues were dedicated to specific women that had an interesting story to tell.

One told the chilling experience of a Bosnian woman who was raped repeatedly by six men who shoved a rifle and bottles into her.

Many monologues were the compilations of women’s responses to Ensler’s interview questions: what the vagina thought, what it said, what it would wear, what it smells like and even included accounts of first menstruation.

First-year law student and monologues performer Heather Wier was impressed to see that the audience consistently had about 40 percent men. She thinks the performance is powerful, carries a good message and was excited to be a part of it.

Colby-Rybicki ended the show with a chilling fact. In the two hours that the show took place, 90 women were raped across the world.