Lysistrata
From: Wednesday, 14th December 2005
To: Saturday, 14 January 2006
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Synopsis
Love, war and women's lib. Written in the 4th Century BC this is one of the greatest of anti-war plays, as well as a bawdy comedy. Lysistrata and the younger women of Athens hold a sex strike in an attempt to stop the 20 year Peloponnesian war whilst she also leads the older women on an assault of the Acropolis.
Our Review:
19 December 2005
It's rare to see classical Greek comedy on the British stage, unlike tragedy of which there has been a relative cornucopia in recent years. The tragedies' archetypal drama still stirs deeply in our collective unconscious whereas the comedies can seem frivolous in comparison. Aristophanes' bawdy Lysistrata is probably the best known of these, and was last seen in a version by Germaine Greer at the Battersea Arts Centre in 1999.
This adaptation by Ranjit Bolt is the same one used in the 1993 Peter Hall production at the Old Vic. Bolt's witty rhyming iambic pentameter, with the choruses turned into songs (music by Simon Slater), makes for a very accessible and highly entertaining updating of Aristophanes' surprisingly modern farce.
The story may be slight but the themes underlying it are significant, if simplistic. Led by the formidable Lysistrata, the women of Athens and Sparta decide to go on a sex strike in a bid to stop their menfolk fighting wa...
Creative
Aristophanes (Author)
Arcola Theatre (Producer)
Olivia Shean (Producer)
Leyla Nazli (Producer)
Ranjit Bolt (Translation)
Ranjit Bolt (Adaptation)
Sarah Esdaile (Director)
Soutra Gilmour (Design)
Simon Slater (Sound)
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