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Actor Joshua Kornbluth was a lazy,crazy American who says he never asked what he could do for his country.

Actor Joshua Kornbluth was a lazy,crazy American who says he never asked what he could do for his country. Then came fatherhood and the sudden realization that if each of us didnt act fast,the world was going to get worse for our children. He turned into Citizen Josh,a pro-active man,who is never too small for a problem too big.

He calls the 80-minute play an autobiographical monologue,a series of vignettes about the comical mis-steps that lead to his becoming a political activist.

Alone on stage dressed in casual jeans and a shirt,surrounded by props like a video screen with streaming of Presidents Reagan,Carter and Kennedy and scenes from the US,Kornbluth takes the audience through many chapters of his life from graduating from college several decades late to his present fight to stop global warming. One excuse is that we dont know enough. The play shows that if somebody like me can become an active citizen,anybody can, he says.

Citizen Josh,which premiered in 2007,has held more than a hundred shows across the US till now. India is its first foreign stop. I am desperately reading books and talking to Indian friends to incorporate Indian references to the play, says Kornbluth,for whom this is a first time in Asia.

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