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Because Lysistrata was written two thousand years ago by Aristophanes, it seems "bawdy" and "ribald" more than sophomoric and thin. There's nothing except sexual silliness to its plot about a smart Athenian woman, Lysistrata (Judith Listfield) who forms a league between all Greek women to force their husbands--by withholding sex from them--to end the Peloponnesian war. The Dunster production takes Lysistrata a little more lightly than it was intended (Aristophanes wrote it during the Peloponnesian war) but so long as you expect only a pretext for laughs, you won't be gravely disappointed...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: Antiwar Attics | 12/12/1974 | See Source »

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