![]() ![]() There is a delightful Cinesias (Nikos Psarras) and a resourceful Spartan (Stelios Iakovidis), with a boisterous comic spirit. Vicky Stavropoulou is a vibrant Lysistrata with an indomitable spirit and Stefania Goulioti is a magnetic comic tour de force as Calonike. The production boasts funky, colourful costumes and masks (by Angelos Mentis), striking lighting (Nikos Vlassopoulos) and an almost Beckettian set design (Olga Brouma), with craters standing for the spheres of dominance of the city states of ancient Greece at war. The women mockingly dress the Commissioner as a woman. Lysistrata adds that it is now difficult for a woman to find a husband. ![]() The National Theatre of Greece’s production premiered at the ancient theatre of Epidaurus, which has reopened with social distancing. Lysistrata tells the Commissioner that war is a concern of women because women have sacrificed greatly for itwomen have given their husbands and their sons to the effort. ![]() Denouncing war as an assault on the natural order, his heroine, Lysistrata (“one that disbands armies”), decides to put all sexual activity in Greece on hiatus, with the aim of forcing the men to sign a peace treaty. Amid the political chaos, Aristophanes responded with a bold, radical comedy. A ristophanes’ gleeful, gloomy comedy Lysistrata was written in 411BC, as the Peloponnesian war continued to rage, the Sicilian Expedition had ended in disaster, the Spartans were attacking the Athenians with ferocity and the city state of Athens was weakened by political intrigues. ![]()
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