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(Posted 1-30-04)
Contact: Dan Nonte, 336-334-5371

Kathryn Blume Brings One-Woman Show to UNCG Feb. 16

GREENSBORO — What do you do if you're one of 40,000 actors in New York, you're struggling with your career, physical problems prevent you from working at your day job, and you're worried about possible war on Iraq? This is the situation actor Kathryn Blume found herself in during the fall of 2002.

The story of how Blume transcended her own problems to create the Lysistrata Project, the first worldwide theater event for peace, is recounted in her one-woman show, “The Accidental Activist.” She is bringing her show to UNCG’s Brown Building Theatre at 8 p.m. Monday, Feb. 16. The Office of Service Learning and the American Democrary Project are sponsoring the performance. The Department of Theatre is hosting a talk with Blume at 3:30 p.m. Feb. 16 also in Brown Building Theatre. Both events are free and open to the public.

After only two months of internet organizing, Blume and actor friend Sharron Bower inspired theater companies and numerous individuals to stage 1,049 readings of “Lysistrata,” the Ancient Greek anti-war comedy, in 59 different countries on 6 continents on the same day, March 3, 2003. The international event raised more than $100,000 for peace-oriented charities.

  In a show that's part fact, part fantasy, part caffeine-induced madness, Blume recounts the story of her astonishing inability to save the world. Laced with self-deprecating wit, impossibly optimistic socio-political observations, and deft sketches of determined, defiant women from around the world, “The Accidental Activist” is a lone person’s ongoing search for a good reason to get out of bed.

Reviewing the show in www.in-nyc.com, Wendy R. Williams wrote, “Watching Kathryn Blume perform her one person show is like spending a charming evening with an old college chum, the one who never stopped being a hippie and is still true to her ideals.”

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