SEX has never been funnier or more poignant than in The Vagina Monologues, which comes to Cardiff next month.

Jerry Hall stars in the play that has been splitting sides across the world since its first performance 11 years ago.

She is perhaps best known for being a model and former wife of Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger.

In recent years, however, the 51-year-old has focused her efforts on acting, mainly in London's West End.

Hall has starred in stage versions of Picasso's Women in Brighton, and two West End hits - The Graduate, as Mrs Robinson, and a revival of Cole Porter's High Society in London in 2005.

She is also a veteran performer of The Vagina Monologues, the award-winning play by Eve Ensler.

The New Yorker asked over 200 women of all ages, ethnic backgrounds and walks of life to share their most intimate secrets in vagina interviews' on such normally taboo topics as birth, sex, orgasms, and relationships, with truly revelatory results.

Over the years the show has attracted such big names as Kate Winslet, Glenn Close, Gillian Anderson, Whoopi Goldberg, and Ruby Wax.

Casting for the 2007 tour will include Natalie Cassidy (Sonia in Eastenders), Sue Holderness (Marlene in Only Fools and Horses), comedienne Rhona Cameron, Lesley Joseph (Dorien in Birds of a Feather) and Claire King (Bad Girls, Strictly Come Dancing). See website for specific venue casting - www.vaginamonologues.com Each ticket sold will include a donation to the V-day Fund, a charity providing aid to women and girls who have been victims of abuse and violence.

The Vagina Monologues is showing at the Donald Gordon Theatre at Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, from Monday, March 19 to Saturday, March 24. Shows start at 7.30pm, Monday to Thursday, with performances at 5.30pm and 8.30pm on Friday and Saturday. Tickets are £5-£29. Book online at www.wmc.org.uk or call the box office on 08700 40 2000.