THE BOYCOTT

Written and performed by Kathryn Blume

Directed by Jason Jacobs

 

Packed to the rafters with moxie and magic, The Boycott tells the story of the First Lady of the United States launching a nationwide sex strike to fight global warming and save the world.  Come for a raucous tour of Oval Office affairs, psychedelic absinthe trips, enchanted frogs, movie star cameos, and land in a heap of unabashed hope. 

 

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It's hard to find humor in global warming but Kathryn Blume manages to do it in "The Boycott." She engages, in an entertaining way, that tough question of "how can what I do make a difference to a global problem?" And critically, she makes us come out of our denial and confront this planet's climate crisis with a sense of optimism and hope. 
- Peter Lehner, Executive Director, NRDC

This is smart, clever, funny, entertaining theatre that makes political activism appealingly cool while unabashedly striving to make it part of the everyday fabric of life again... Blume's fluid, high-energy performance makes what she accomplishes here look like the easiest thing in the world.

- nytheatre.com

The Boycott is a magical experience: at times hilarious, at times heart-wrenching, and at all points absolutely necessary.

- Charlotte Citizen

Photo credits Lindsay Raymondjack and Deb Lewis

 

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The Boycott was developed with the assistance of The Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, NativeEnergy, The National Endowment for the Arts,

The Vermont Arts Council, Anichini Company, Vermont Stage Company, The Hungarian Multicultural Center, The Village Wine Shop, Dobra Tea House, and a host of magnificently generous private donors.  Thanks to all of you for your open hearts and bounteous natures.

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Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization, is serving as my fiscal sponsor. 

Contributions made on my behalf to Fractured Atlas are tax deductible to the extent permitted by law.

 

MEDIA COVERAGE

  • River Front Times, St. Louis: "Kathryn Blume’s one woman show The Boycott is not really about global warming, a world-wide sex embargo launched by the first lady of the United States or a talking Brazilian tree frog that dispenses wisdom while hanging out on the astral plane, although all of these elements feature prominently in the plot. The Boycott is about that marvelous human gift for turning desperation into inspiration. "
  • Homer News, Homer, AK:  "In live theater, anything can happen. Put Kathryn Blume on the stage with a few simple props, 28 characters and a fuzzy green sock puppet, and a lot can happen."
  • Orion Magazine - Sex, Wives, and Climate Change by Amy Seidl:  "What Blume reveals is just how much creativity, humor, and pathos it will take to move us beyond the global warming message and toward embodying the artistic license needed to do something about it."

  • Burlington Free Press Review:  "...but for all her immense energy, passion and anger at the planet’s tenuous position, Blume knows enough to break up the message with laughs...The Boycott is even unabashedly silly at times; Lissa Stratton’s main adviser on her no-sex campaign is a quite-possibly-imaginary tree frog whose species is endangered by the planet’s warming trend. The amphibian manifests itself in the form of a furry green sock puppet on Blume’s right hand, and gives the actress the chance to use her keen comic timing..."
  • Times Argus Review: "...Kathryn Blume has taken the classic 2000-plus-year-old Aristophanes comedy, Lysistrata, and brought it to today with hilarious – and often poignant – results...The Boycott...is a point-blank attack on current American policy on global warming – and it’s terribly funny, and largely convincing.

 

AUDIENCE COMMENTS

  • You should know that your audiences are leaving having gladly received a wonderful message, with the potential and knowledge to be a better occupant of this planet.
  • Thank you for your energy and creativity in creating such a fabulous venue for getting the message out to save our planet. You are a ray of hope for all of us who know you.
  • I personally think what you are doing with "The Boycott" is transformative and has the potential to really engage people's hearts and minds and move them to action.
  • Please take this on the road.  It delights and educates and motivates all at once.
  • (From the owner of a health club)  THANK YOU for bringing your play to this world.  I was SO moved by it.  In fact, I purchased my fabric bags from the Shelburne IGA this week and I’m going to look into harvesting the power from our Spinning bikes.  I have NO idea if we can afford to do whatever that would take, but I at least want to look into it.
  • I wanted to thank you for The Boycott. It moved me in a profound way, especially because it presents a story that doesn't have an end yet. To me the story is about a human being that has been pushed to the edge of her existence and has no other choice but to make sense of it (not everybody gets to do this). Lucky me, that human being happened to be a story-teller and an actor...in my town. There are a million other things that I loved about the show, including George Clooney, so a heart felt congratulations for your fine work (and everybody who helped you) and I really hope you will present it in the area again.
  • You were phenomenal!  The show is fabulous!  You were smart, funny, sexy, adorable, sincere, and brilliant all wrapped up into a gorgeous package!  I laughed, I got teary, and have blabbed about it to everyone I've come into contact with.
  • Very much enjoyed the show.  And, have got to say that you're an inspiration vis-a-vis the entrepreneurial lifestyle. I sat there looking at you having written this thing, pulled it together conceptually, and making it happen, performing it seamlessly, not missing a comic beat, pulling people from emotion to emotion, and I'm pretty darned impressed.
  • Your show was smart, funny, and especially hope-ful in the truest sense.  You are a gift to us all.
  • You were tremendous, and it was one of the best live performances we have ever seen - one we will always remember.
  • Thank you so much for giving so much of your soul on stage.  Awe inspiring. 
  • Oh my god you were awesome.  How in the world can you hold so much inside of you??
  • It was the freshest, most inspiring, witty, at times hysterical, poignant, and oh so relevant evenings I have spent in a long time!
  • Really funny and touching and with a message that is forceful without the feeling one is being bashed over the head with it.  This is important.
  • I just came home raving about your show, this important work, how wonderful you were!  I am very moved by all of it.
  • I just want to say right off the bat: Fan-f......-tastic.  A tour de force.  Your emphasis on hope is the way to go.  Your writing was wonderful.  Your wrestling with fear and panic in your own journal was exactly right on the mark.  Your bold sexual content brings the whole damn thing right up front.  I loved it.  And all my hats are off to you.  Thank you thank you for doing this.
  • Thanks, Kathy, for last night's performance.  It was wonderful - powerful, engaging meaningful.  I'm sure it will have an impact.  I look forward to seeing it again.

 

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