The Wartburg College V-Day Campaign will present three benefit readings of Eve Ensler’s award-winning play, “The Vagina Monologues,” Feb. 20-22.

The Wartburg College V-Day Campaign — part of a global activist movement to stop violence against women and girls — will perform the play at 8 p.m. in McCaskey Lyceum. A panel discussion will follow performances Friday and Saturday at 9:30 p.m.

The play — a variety of monologues about the experiences of women — has been described as “funny” and “poignant” by the New York Times. Tickets are $5 at the door or can be reserved by calling Sheree Covert at 319-352-8643. Proceeds will assist the Cedar Valley Friends of the Family, a nonprofit victim advocacy agency serving 14 counties of Northeast Iowa.

Co-directors of the production are Wartburg students Gabbi Miller, a sophomore from Waterloo, and Kelsey Church, a senior from Grimes. Tosin Adyeye, a senior from Nigeria, is the V-Day Campaign coordinator.

Last year more than 5,800 V-Day benefit performances of the play around the world raised more than $5 million. This year V-Day’s “One Billion Rising for Justice” campaign also includes a global call for female survivors of violence and those who love them to gather safely in places to tell their stories through art, dance, marches, ritual, song, spoken word, sit-ins and testimonies.