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Stagings of Greek play to protest war.(Time Out!)

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From: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
Date: 20030228
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Byline: Lea Silverman Medill News Service

In a 2,400-year-old Greek play by Aristophanes called "Lysistrata," the women of Athens band together to end the Peloponnesian War.

Disempowered by their gender and rendered voiceless in their government, the women resort to an extreme method of making a statement - they refuse to have sex with their husbands until the war ends.

Performed simultaneously Monday at 15 Chicago theaters and in venues elsewhere in the United States and in 37 countries around the world, the play is the inspiration for a protest against an Iraq war.

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