In 2003, as the United States prepared to invade Iraq, groups of activists across the world staged readings and performances of a play written for an Athenian festival audience in […]
Every translation of Lysistrata makes a quiet confession somewhere in its footnotes: a joke here doesn’t fully work in English, a pun there had to be replaced with a different […]
Modern readers usually meet Lysistrata on the page, which means they miss almost everything that made it work in the first place. This was not a story meant to be […]
By the time Lysistrata premiered in 411 BCE, Athens and Sparta had already been at war, on and off, for two decades. Imagine a city where an entire generation had […]
Picture a room full of the most powerful men in a city, utterly stuck. Not because an enemy army is at the gates, not because the treasury has run dry, […]
