Lysistrata
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Opened Oct 6, 2004
Closed Oct 10, 2004
Opened Oct 6, 2004
Closed Oct 10, 2004
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The National Theater of Greece returns with a new production of Aristophanes' Lysistrata. This timeless comedy is perhaps the world's oldest and most famous anti-war play. Lysistrata, the prototype of the 21st Century woman, takes over the Acropolis in Athens and dictates that no man will have sex until she gets what she wants.
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This is and isn't an ideal time for Aristophanes' Lysistrata to be unleashed on an audience. On the one hand, we're inhabiting a period when American women are going to war themselves and not holding out on sex in order to make their husbands swear off going to war. When someone like the grinning, thumbs-up Lynddie English preempts headlines, the title character of Lysistrata is somewhat out of synch with the moment.
On the other hand, many countries -- not just our own -- are at war. At such a juncture, Aristophanes' anti-war play, which was written when Athenians were plum tuckered from the Peloponnesian Wars, remains current. (This begs the query: Can anyone name an era in the last [...]