Date/Time
Date(s) - 10/09/2025 - 10/19/2025
12:00 am
Location
Pittsburgh Playhouse (Point Park University)
Categories
The classic Greek play “Lysistrata” remains both funny and relevant even 2,500 years since it was performed — and has been adapted by contemporary playwright Drue Robinson.
With the city-states Athens and Sparta about to start another war, the women of both cities are frustrated with Greece’s male-dominated society. One of them, Lysistrata, comes up with an ingenious plan: all the women will go on a sex strike until a peace agreement is reached. This begins a different kind of war as the genders battle for supremacy.
This remains one of the most popular works of Aristophanes (446BCE-386BCE), who is known among theater aficionados as “The Father of Comedy/”
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