Brett Singer & Associates, LLC
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, PLEASE
Can one play make a difference?
Mighty
Ruckus To Present
August
1, 2007
Activist
and performer Kathryn Blume will bring her new show, The Boycott, to New York's Arclight Theater for a
six-week engagement. Performances will
begin on Thursday, October 11th and will continue through Sunday,
November 18th.
About the Show
Inspired by the ancient Greek
anti-war comedy Lysistrata, The
Boycott
tells the story of Kathryn Blume, a woman trying to fight global warming and
save the world - by telling the story of Lyssa
Stratton,
the First Lady of the United States launching a national sex strike to fight
global warming and save the world. As The Boycott progresses, the story of Kathryn, trying
to keep her emotional head above the waters of gloom and doom and create a
piece of theater which will make a difference, interweaves with the story of
Lyssa, who has to take on her indifferent husband, a hostile press, and a
romantic rival who’s not only in bed with the President, but with the darkest
powers of the oil industry. Aided by
her impassioned daughter, a high tech Secret Service agent, and a plucky
Brazilian tree frog she meets on the Astral Plane, Lyssa bumps and lurches her
way into an unexpected, wildly comic, and ultimately successful campaign. Kathryn, too, with the help of friends, the
extended DVD of "The Lord of the Rings," and significant quantities
of dark chocolate (organic and fair trade, of course), manages to complete her
tale and find a bright flame of hope for herself, for her audience, and for the
future of the world.
About
the Artists
Kathryn
Blume is co-founder of The Lysistrata Project, a worldwide theatrical
event where fifty-nine countries hosted 1,029 readings of Aristophanes' play to
protest the Iraq war. She has toured The
Accidental Activist – her critically acclaimed one-woman show about The
Lysistrata Project – to over 30 cities in the US and Canada, receiving an
Austin Critics Table Award nomination.
Off-Broadway credits include appearances at the Pearl Theater,
Playwright’s Horizons, The New 42nd Street Theater and the Greenwich
Street Theater. Her political essays
have been published in numerous books, including MoveOn.org's 50 Ways To
Love Your Country and 365 Ways to Change the World.
Director
Jason Jacobs co-artistic director of Theatre Askew, where he staged the
critically-acclaimed Bald Diva!, I Claudius, Live!, and the recent I
Google Myself by Jason Schafer. He
previously directed Kathryn in The Accidental Activist, and directed and
co-wrote Vanya/Vermont for Vermont Stage Company.
In
keeping with the theme of the piece, a $1.50 fee will be added to the price of
each ticket to help offset the Carbon emissions from the show. This fee will go
to Native Energy, a privately held Native American energy company. For more
about the company visit www.nativeenergy.com.
The Boycott will begin performances
on Thursday, October 11th and will continue through Sunday, November
18th. The schedule will be
Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8:00pm, and Sundays at 3:00pm. Tickets are $30 and may be purchased by
calling Theatermania.com at (866)811-4111, or online at www.theboycottplay.com.
The
Boycott
Written
and Performed by Kathryn Blume
Directed
by Jason Jacobs
Presented
by Mighty Ruckus
Arclight
Theater, 132 West 71st Street, between Broadway and Columbus
SCHEDULE:
Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8:00pm, Sundays at 3:00pm
Performances
begin Thursday, October 11th
NOTE:
Additional performance on Monday, October 15th at 7pm (please note
earlier start time)
No
performance on Wednesday, October 17th
Opening
Night: Wednesday, October 24th at 8pm
Through
Sunday, November 18th
TICKETS: $30.00 (low-priced previews October 11th,
12th and 13th); $1.50 per ticket Carbon Offset Fee
Call
Theatermania.com (866)811-4111 or visit www.theboycottplay.com
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