David Maclennan and David Anderson have adapted Lysistrata, one of the few surviving plays written by Aristophanes. Read more …
Originally performed in Athens in 411 BC, it is a comic account of one woman's extraordinary mission to end the Pelopennesian War.
Lysistrata oersuades the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands and lovers as a means of forcing the men to negotiate peace, a strategy however that inflames the battle between the sexes.
X certificate!
This all-male production vibrantly comes triumphantly to life like a Glesga version of Carry On Cleo sketched by Donald McGill.
The serious undertow of the story is almost ovewhelmed by hilarity.
Time for a change of scenery--and of gender
A Play, a Pie and a Pint, Glasgow from Monday June 28, 2010, until Saturday July 3, 2010. 1.00pm. Doors open at 12.00.. More info: http://playpiepint.com
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