Discuss “Lysistrata's sexual themes put women in charge”

On Tuesday night, a select few had the privilege of watching the dress rehearsal of the drama department?s rendition of Aristophanes? Lysistrata. Directed by Jed Allen Harris, the play presented a contemporary interpretation of the fifth?century-?BCE anti-war work.

Lysistrata, the beacon of feminist sentiment and anti-war pride, is played by Susan Goodwillie. She is joined by a cast of fellow scheming women and a cluster of male counterparts. The ?original ?Make Love, Not War? play,? Harris? Lysistrata humorously explores what happens when several Athenian and Spartan women withhold sex from their men in an attempt to get a never-ending war to finally cease. It is while the men are pining for the females? attention that both the comedy and...