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Full-Length Play, Comedy / 11w, 8m
Germaine Greer, Phil Willmott
"Fast, broad, silly and profound." - Independent on Sunday "Wonderfully fragrant, upper crust Lysistrata" - Guardian
Athens is in the grip of a futile, destructive war with Sparta and its men are fighting abroad, taken away from their wives and families for…
Athens is in the grip of a futile, destructive war with Sparta and its men are fighting abroad, taken away from their wives and families for long periods at a time. The women of Athens have had enough. At dawn, in a men's bathhouse, leading society woman Lysistrata gathers an assembly of Athenian and Spartan women to discuss negotiating a peace treaty. Their tactics are simple: they will refuse their men sex until peace is declared. Germaine Greer and Phil Willmott's wonderful adaptation of Aristophanes' play "treads expertly between the tremendous and the tacky" [Observer]. With Carry On characters, a cartoon-style set, raunchy dialogue and bawdy action performed to a soundtrack of Marilyn Monroe and Julie London, the serious subject of war remains prominent amid the humour in this battle of the sexes.
Lysistrata: leader of Women for Peace. Kalonike: her neighbour. Myrrhine: leader of the Anagyrus women. Kalike: a young Athenian woman. Lampito: leader of the Spartan women. Iris: leader of the Boetian women. Praxagora:
A bathhouse steam room
"Fast, broad, silly and profound." - Independent on Sunday"Wonderfully fragrant, upper crust Lysistrata" - Guardian