LYSISTRATA
Written and Directed by Donna DuCarme
From the original by Aristophanes

Sex, politics, and war - are we having fun yet?

Written by Aristophanes in 150 BC Greece, LYSISTRATA was a humorous - and fruitless - attempt to suggest a way out of the ongoing Athens/Sparta war. With it’s mix of sex and politics, topical political references and tongue-in-cheek feminism, it survives every literary interference with nonsensical grace, ready for the next protest movement and costume change. This series of adaptations have been presented in New York, spoofing the 1992 Presidential Campaign; at de Balie in Amsterdam (2003) as part of the The Lysistrata Project. (http://www.lysistrataproject.com/), a worldwide theatrical act protesting the Bush Administration's war in Iraq; and in 2004 at de Cameleon in Amsterdam, again spoofing presidential politics. Also presented in part, in 2004 at Pickup Paradiso - the alternative "Uitmarkt".