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March 2003 Newsletter The Lysistrata Project On Monday, March 3, Synapse joined over 1000 teams of directors and actors in 59 countries and all 50 states in an extraordinary international theatre event for peace, the Lysistrata Project. Participating companies performed readings of Aristophanes' classic anti-war comedy, Lysistrata, which tells the story of women from opposing states who unite to end a war by refusing to sleep with their men until they agree to lay down their swords. Powerless in their society, with too many of their sons and husbands being slaughtered in battle, the women take the only tactic available to them: a sex strike. The Synapse reading took place at the Drama Bookstore on West 40th
Street, in collaboration with Up-To-Date Theatricals. All proceeds
from the event were donated to charities working for peace and humanitarian
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