Have you ever wondered about people who lived over two thousand years ago? Not how they lived, but what they were like? What were their thoughts, dreams and aspirations? Their problems (apart from that of finding food, of course!)?
Lysistrata, written by the Greek playwright Aristophanes in 411 BC, takes place during the seemingly never-ending Peloponnesian War, when city states of Athens, Sparta and others are constantly fighting each other. With their husbands and boyfriends always away from home, the women despair. But what can they do? As women in ancient Greece, they are housebound and little thought of…except in one respect.
Lysistrata knows that there’s only one thing men love more than fighting, and that’s having sex. So she calls a meeting of women from all the Greek city states and proposes that they refuse to give their men-folk sex until they agree to end the war. After initial reluctance – women like having sex, too – the women agree and they launch their plan.
Between sex-starved men and sex-starved women – who will give in first?
Lysistrata (Amber True) proposes an embargo on sex to the women of Greece
The True Troupe opened Lysistrata at McIlvain Plaza, just outside the Pathfinder building on the campus of Laramie County Community College, on Thursday, June 27, 2019, and will continue this Friday through Sunday, and Thursday through Saturday of next week – July 4th through the 6th.
The ensemble cast has a lot of fun with this piece, which is thought provoking and hilarious in equal measures.
Amber True commands the space as the Athenian Lysistrata, the woman who not only realizes that men are fools in their conduct of the war, but has the courage to say so, even to the magistrate (Jedediah Huntzinger) come to reprimand them for their foolishness – and attempt to regain entry into the Acropolis, where the city’s treasure is kept. He is set upon by the women and made up as an (anachronistic but no less funny) Babushka doll for his pains.
Lysistrata (Amber True) answering the questions of the Magistrate (Jedediah Huntzinger)- who little knows the fate in store for him
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Charles Detheridge as Kinesias has arguably the most hilarious scenes for the belligerent but befuddled men who attempt to retake the Acropolis – he begs his wife Myrrhine (Elizabeth Harrell) to have sex with him and she pretends to agree, which raises his hopes – but things do not turn out as he had expected once they repair to the privacy of a nearby cave.
Myrrhine (Elizabeth Harrell) has forgotten yet another item she needs before she can have sex with her husband (Cody Harvick)
Isemenia (Jessica Williams) attempts to leave the Acropolis by pretending to be pregnant but Lysistrata sees through her deception. Traci Erikson as Lampito (far left) is shocked, and Koryphaios (Angie Ingram) and Calonike (Brigid Baugh are amused
Lysistrata and her friends await the coming of the men to attempt to retake the Acropolis
Male delegates from the city states (Charles Dethridge (Coryphaeus), Cody Harvick (Kinesias), Kade Keener (Lycon), and Jed Huntzinger)) come to negotiate with Lysistrata (Amber True).
Lysistrata is fast-paced and fast (only an hour and fifteen minutes long, with intermission) and a perfect way to spend a summer evening.
Oh…where does the sadness come in? Well, Lysistrata was written over 2000 years ago…and things haven’t really changed, have they.
The Park Series continues with The Tempest
Not only will the True Troupe be performing Lysistrata on its closing weekend of July 4, 5 ad 6, but they’ll also be performing Shakespeare’s The Tempest on that same weekend- and which will then continue for the next weekend.
Oh brave new theatre troupe that has such performances in it…bravo True Troupe
