Operation Lysistrata
- 2006
- Directed By: Michael Patrick Kelly
- Comedy, Documentary, Drama
- 85 Minutes
- Tuesday, November 29, 2011 7:00 p.m.
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Sponsored by the IU Department of Theatre and Drama, presenting Lysistrata on:
December 2, 3, 6-9 at 7:30 pm
December 10 at 2 pm & 7:30 pm
Wells-Metz Theatre - For more information and tickets, click here.
OPERATION LYSISTRATA - the film
In January 2003, Kathryn Blume and Sharron Bower, two actresses from New York City thought to organize readings of the ancient Greek play byAristophanes, 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 forpeace. On March 3, 2003 nearly 1,100 simultaneous productions of Lysistrata were performed in 59 countries around the globe.
Operation Lysistrata illuminates the way in which two women transformed their individual aspirations for peace into a movement which allowed the global community to share in their vision, using grassroots activism, conflict resolution, community building and the role of art in a functioning democracy. The organized readings of the ancient Greek play, all performed on March 3, 2003 was extraordinarily successful. Celebrities as well as small theatre companies world-wide turned out in force for this unique event.
Tapes of readings poured in from England, Iceland, Japan, Singapore, Australia, Italy, Montreal, Nova Scotia, the U.S.A. From a Kurdish Refugee Camp in Northern Greece to Havana, Cuba, to Moscow, Idaho, all to document this once in a lifetime and truly amazing experience.
