The Boston Globe, February 28th, 2003
Theater artists around the world will stage public readings of "Lysistrata" on Monday, to voice opposition to the looming war in Iraq. More than 800 readings of Aristophanes' 2,400-year-old antiwar comedy are scheduled in 49 countries and each of the 50 American states. At least a dozen are planned for the Boston area. Money raised will go to charities working for peace and providing humanitarian aid in the Middle East, according to the Lysistrata Project, a coordinating committee created six weeks ago by New York actors Kathryn Blume and Sharron Bower. The two organized the effort because the...
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