Kathy Randels is a performance artist from New Orleans who has been living and working with the theater company Dah Teatar in Belgrade, Yugoslavia since October, 1998. The war in Yugoslavia has disrupted Dah's work. The company was in New Zealand performing at an international festival of women's performance when NATO began bombing Yugoslavia. The seven members of the company are now scattered throughout Yugoslavia, New Zealand and the U.S. It is uncertain when the company will come together again to perform or rehearse. The break-up of Dah Teatar is one small example of how NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia is radically, negatively and permanently changing people's lives. Today, Randels is performing her part in Dah's piece, The Helen Keller Case, with the props she has with her-keeping the spirit of protest and search for value in life that the work of Dah has always proclaimed despite living and working under a dictatorship. The piece will not make sense, as it is missing the four other actors and other elements of the set, just as this war does not make sense, as we are only given pieces of the story. This performance is protesting the destruction of lives and culture caused by NATO's continued assault. It also recalls the protests of Las Madres de la Plaza del Cinco De Mayo, a group of women in Argentina who dance without partners to mourn and protest the disappearance of their husbands, brothers and sons. The performance is an homage to Women in Black all over the world and particularly in Belgrade, who have held silent vigils for peace every Wednesday since the war began in Yugoslavia in l99l. The performance space is marked by shells and driftwood from New Zealand, where Dah was when the bombing began. Observers in black support peaceful solutions to political problems all over the world.