Lysistrata

By: Aristophanes

Narrated by: Marnye Young

The Peloponnesian War drags on and on with no end in sight, and the tough-minded Lysistrata has had enough. Men! - always making stupid decisions that affect everyone. Women's opinions are never listened to.

Taking matters into her own hands, Lysistrata convenes a meeting of women from warring city-states across Greece and calls for a sex strike. It's a hard sell, but in the end, it is agreed: They will withhold sex until the war is brought to hasty a close.

Playing their part, too, the old women of Athens seize control of the Acropolis - and with it, the treasury - holing up behind it's barred gates and choking off the silver that funds the interminable war.

It's a waiting game, and a difficult one - some of the women are already becoming desperate for sex and deserting the cause. But Lysistrata is determined to stay the course and soon restores discipline. The men can't hold out forever...can they?

First staged in 411 BC, Lysistrata is the bawdy, comic account of one woman's singular mission to end the Peloponnesian War using the only means that seems available to her in a male-dominated world.

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Public Domain (P)2018 Silverton Audio

would be better with a full cast

as fun as her different accents were, it would be better with a full cast

Funny!!!!

Crude- yes. Classic- yes. Funny- hell yeah. This is clear proof that the Greeks had a great sense of humor and that Aristophanes and his peers deserve more thanks than they receive. The play is for mature audiences as the humor will be lost on those under 18, perhaps even 30. With age this play becomes funnier; and the truths it exposes are as true today as they were then.

Another masterwork by the Audiosorcerress!

Awesome handling of the names, and consistency throughout. A definite must listen. Always looking forward to her next work. Authors should be lining up

great play, poor recording.

the worst part of this recording is the echo effect of the chorus parts. this made the latter half (majority of Act 2) all but impossible to hear, follow or enjoy.

Excellent play, mostly good performances.

The play is hilariously alive and fresh for one written 2400+ years ago. I kept remarking on things I couldn't believe Aristophanese wrote. The performances keep it dynamic and mostly enable one to distinguish the different characters, but the chorus sounds weird and metallic, and at times other things sound a bit off. Overall quite good, though.