Word: lampito
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Enter, at last, Lysistrata (Kathleen Sweeney) and her horde of woman cohorts: Kalonike (Darla Christopher), Myrrhine (Nancy Boghossian), Lampito (Sarah Brown), Ismenia (Maureen Fallon) and Calipo (Chuck Marshall). Yes, that was Chuck. A male playing a female part--there must be something behind this. You keep waiting for him to reveal his identity and perhaps foil Lysistrata's master plan. When it becomes apparent that nothing of the sort is going to happen, you begin to wonder if enough women auditioned. But no, the director tells you afterwards, they thought it would be a good joke...
...plan works and the women of Greece emerge triumphant, and settle things in their own way, there isn't all that much here for a contemporary supporter of women's rights to get enthusiastic about. A large part of the humor, especially of Leslie Wilson's well-played Lampito, is the humor of bitchiness, and many of the characters (with the possible exception of the statesman-like Lysistrata herself) are portrayed as bargain-hunting matrons. They find it just as difficult to lay off sex as the men do, and it can hardly be said that Aristophanes takes a position...
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