Synopses & Reviews
Premiered in London last year to critical acclaim, Aristophanes’ classic battle of the sexes is given an up-to-the-minute plundering by the world’s leading feminist raconteur, polemicist and wit. "Germaine Greer’s ball-grabbing translation misses no opportunity to squeeze as fruity an interpretation as possible. A bubbling bag of Ancient Greek delights."—Rachel Halliburton, The Independent
Synopsis
Aristophanes' classic battle of the sexes is given an up-to-the-minute plundering by the world's leading feminist raconteur, polemicist and wit.
Synopsis
Aristophanes' classic play retold in a bang up to the minute way.Premiered in London last year to critical acclaim, Aristophanes' classic battle of the sexes is given an up-to-the-minute plundering by the world's leading feminist raconteur, polemicist and wit.
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A feminist retelling of the classic Greek satire adapted by leading feminist Germaine Greer. The ancient world is gripped by a long and futile war. While the men of Athens fight in a foreign land, the women of Athens can take no more. Lysistrata, the play's heroine, persuades the women to barricade themselves inside a building and refuse to give their husbands sex until they negotiate an end to the Peloponnesian War and secure peace. She also persuades the women of Sparta, the enemy, to join her cause and refuse sex to their husbands until they too agree to stop the war. The men eventually give in, peace is agreed and the women go home to their husbands.
Synopsis
Aristophanes' classic play retold in a bang up to the minute way.