Word: lysistrata
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...company staged the Vagina Monologues and an all-female version of The Merchant of Venice earlier this year, as well as an anti-war reading of Aristophanes’ play Lysistrata...
...women of Athens withheld sex from their husbands until they stopped a ruinous war in Aristophanes’ play Lysistrata. Last night, the Athena Theater Company held a reading of the ribald anti-war play to protest possible American military action against Iraq...
Joining over 1,000 groups around the world yesterday, 11 students in the Lowell Junior Common Room read the play as part of the Lysistrata Project...
...group chose the play for its humorous dialogue yet strong anti-war message, according to Lysistrata Project spokesperson Mark Greene...
...Lysistrata, which was first performed in 411 BCE, tells the story of the women of Athens who take control of the city and deny their husbands carnal pleasures in order to stop the Peloponnesian War. The women’s aim is to force their sex-deprived husbands to make peace...