Lysistrata
Opening Night: July 15, 2010
Closing: July 15, 2010
Theater: New York Public Library
A comic account of one woman’s extraordinary mission to end The Peloponnesian War. Lysistrata convinces 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.
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July 15, 2010
WORDS, words, words. Not sets, lights or props. That’s the idea behind the Instant Shakespeare Company, which for the 11th year is performing all of Shakespeare’s plays in bare-bones readings around Manhattan. The traditional framework of a production — extensive staging, long rehearsals — is jettisoned here, leaving only the actors and the script. It’s Shakespeare on a shoestring, created to engage the newcomer and please the purist.
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