Theatres Against War

On Monday some 700 readings of Aristophanes’ anti-war satire “Lysistrata,” written in 411 B.C., will be presented around the world to protest a war in Iraq. “It’s all part of the Lysistrata Project, the brainchild of New York writer-actress Kathryn Blume. Blume said she had been working on a screenplay based on “Lysistrata” when she heard about Theaters Against War (THAW), a group planning an ‘action day’ to protest a potential United States war against Iraq.”