Drama at Dauntsey's

"Lysistrata"

By Aristophanes, Translation unknown

Date: December 2006

Venue: Memorial Hall


Led by the eponymous Lysistrata, the story's female characters barricade the public funds building and withhold sex from their husbands to end the Peloponnesian War and secure peace. In doing so, Lysistrata engages the support of women from Sparta, Boeotia, and Corinth. All of them, at first aghast at the suggestion of withholding sex, finally agree swearing an oath of allegiance to the cause.


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