Word: lysistrata
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...femme fatale is an oft depicted image in theater. Alluring and confident, she dominates men with her sexy looks and natural charm. When the women of Greece take this image one step further in “Lysistrata,” using sex as a leveraging tool to stop the fighting of The Peloponnesian War, uproar and hilarity ensue.Two thousand, four hundred years after its original performance in Athens, Aristophanes’ “Lysistrata” is being brought to campus by Harvard’s Classical Club, who both selected and translated the play. Directed by James...
...multiple millennia. The Loeb Experimental Theatre was transformed into a gritty, graffiti-laden dungeon, and the women wore costumes applicable to a number of female archetypes—the blouse and pearls of a housewife, the pink sundress of a Southern belle, the sequined mini-dress of a hooker. Lysistrata (Olivia J. Jampol ’09), stomping around in a black mini-skirt, black boots, and a leopard-print jacket, was convincing as a galvanizing force and militant feminist. After the male politicians and military officers ignore her initial pleas for peace between Athens and Sparta, she persuades...
...Bush and Cheney don’t seem like lascivious types, but it may be that this potent combination of sexual sublimation and free time in fact explains the administration’s misguided Iraq adventure. As the Athenian women in Aristophane’s Lysistrata and today’s French know all too well, more time fucking means less time for fucking up the world...
...quality of the thesis, the thesis must be extraordinary,” says Spillane-Hinks.Martin’s thesis, a study of ancient Greek democracy through an analytical narrative and a combined adaptation of Aristophanes’ “The Birds” and “Lysistrata,” was awarded a summa on its first grade and is also being considered for the Hoopes Prize. It incorporates an analysis of historical government with the modern-day applications of theater as a form of political criticism.“I knew that when I was thinking about...
...offending public sensibilities. Note the many points of intersection between “banned books” lists and “great books” courses. Before Allen Ginsberg’s Howl, there is James Joyce’s Ulysses. Well before either come Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, and Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron, all of which were banned in the United States under the Comstock Law of 1873, prohibiting the sale of “lewd,” “indecent...