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Operation Lysistrata Film to Screen in Burlington

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From: Seven Days
Date: 20070613
Author:Harrison, Margot

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On March 3, 2003, more than 1000 groups of people in 59 countries staged simultaneous readings of Aristophanes' classic antiwar comedy Lysistrata. In this mass protest against the imminent Iraq war, the performers ranged from celebrities such as Kevin Bacon to Kurdish refugees. The event, co-created by actress/writer Kathryn Blume of Charlotte, was billed as the "first-ever worldwide theatrical act of dissent."

From just one spot on the globe, it was hard to grasp the scope of such a collective action. But the documentary film Operation Lysistrata, to screen at Burlington's City Hall ...

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