Lysistrata April 19, 2009

In one of the greatest of Greek comedies, 'Lysistrata' bands together the women of Sparta, Boeotia and Corinth in order to stop their husbands from perpetuating the Peloponnesian War. Their means of persuasion? Withholding sex. Aristophanes' astute theatricality and poetic wit is brilliantly captured by the Rudall translation, as timely today as when it was written.