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From: The Village Voice
Date: 20030226
Author:Kamenetz, Anya

THAW and the Lysistrata Project's Anti-War Fare

The mood is set with wild costumes and outlandish puppets; blood and gore and baby carriages; music, singing, and dancing. Impassioned speeches ring out over rapt crowds. The modern large-scale political rally, the major manifestation of the growing movement against war on Iraq, employs nearly all the arts of theater. On March 2 and 3, thousands of artists will extend the show by making theater in the service of protest: On Sunday, over 100 theaters in New York will take action as THAW-Theaters Against War; the next day, over 600 groups across ...

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