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In January 2003, Kathryn Blume and Sharron Bower, two actresses from New York City thought to organize readings of the ancient Greek play by Aristophanes, Lysistrata, as a protest of the imminent preemptive war on Iraq. Originally conceived as a local event, over the course of a several weeks, word of the Project quickly gained momentum and became a worldwide happening for peace. On March 3 ...
Jun 27, 2016 · Warwick's student Classics Society puts on Lysistrata (with new translation by Clive Letchford) at the Warwick Arts Centre in 2016.
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Jun 7, 2021 · June 7-13, 2021. Operation No Penetration, Lysistrata 97! An outrageous comedy about sex and war adapted and directed by Torange Yeghiazarian from Kenneth Mc Liesh’s translation of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata.
In Operation Lysistrata, documentary filmmaker Michael Patrick Kelly etches a moving portrait of Bower and Blume, illustrating how grassroots activism and art can intersect to form the basis of effective social protest. The film is the story of how two women transformed their individual aspirations for peace into a movement that allowed a ...
Sep 7, 2006 · Operation Lysistrata: Directed by Michael Patrick Kelly. With F. Murray Abraham, Cheryl Black, Kathryn Blume, Sharron Bower. In January 2003, two women in New York City, Kathryn Blume and Sharron Bower, thought to organize readings of the ancient Greek play by Aristophanes, Lysistrata, as a protest against the imminent preemptive war on Iraq.
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- Michael Patrick Kelly
- 2006-09-07
1 hr 25 mins. Documentary. NR. Watchlist. In January 2003, two Manhattan activists, Sharron Bower and Kathryn Blume, conceived the idea of staging a public reading of Aristophanes's seminal...
