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Lysistrata

The women of Greece go on a sex strike to force their husbands to end the Peloponnesian Wars.

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy

  • Time Period: Greek; Roman; Biblical
  • Target Audience: Young Adult, Adult
  • Set Requirements: Flexible

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre
The women of Greece go on a sex strike to force their husbands to end the Peloponnesian Wars.

This edition of Aristophanes' comedy Lysistrata, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, is translated by Patric Dickinson, and edited and introduced by Kenneth McLeish.

Premiere Production: 411 BC Athens.
  • Casting: 3M, 4F
  • Casting Attributes: Room for Extras, Good role(s) for female performers