In March 2003, organizers in fifty-nine countries launched The Lysistrata Project : A Theatrical Act of Dissent. The event, which included 1,029 readings of Aristophanes' famed antiwar comedy, was held on the cusp of the US invasion of Iraq, to protest the Bush administration's plans for unilateral aggression. I was privileged to be a part of one of the many Boston readings organized by Pilgrim Theatre's Susan Thomps…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:00PM on August 4, 2013