Methuen Drama, 1993

Classical Dramatists

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Roles: Total (33), Female (7), Male (26), Unassigned (0)

...It is the fifth century BC and Dikaiopolis, a peasant who is forced by war to live in the city, has secured an unlikely peace for Athens in their war against the Spartans. However, not all his fellow citizens agree with the new détente...

Methuen Drama, 2002

Classical Dramatists

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Roles: Total (26), Female (1), Male (25), Unassigned (0)

...Tired of the unending wittering of Athenian lawmen, Euelpides and Peithetairos flee the city with their trusty feathered companions. However, their hoped for exile begins with getting lost, and the play opens with them crowing and pecking...

Methuen Drama, 2002

Classical Dramatists

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Roles: Total (18), Female (0), Male (18), Unassigned (0)

...Losing all faith in humanity, and their basest incarnation, the tragedians, Dionysos, god of the theatre, vows to go to the underworld to revive the greatest tragedian of all, the barely cold Euripides, who had died the year before...

Methuen Drama, 1993

Classical Dramatists

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Roles: Total (9), Female (2), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...When Nikias and Demosthenes discover that their fellow slave, the loud-mouthed Paphlagon, is destined to rule the city of Athens, they immediately set out to find the one man prophesised to defeat him — the local sausage-seller. Paphlagon...

Methuen Drama, 1993

Classical Dramatists

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Roles: Total (26), Female (11), Male (15), Unassigned (0)

...What’s a woman to do when the men refuse to stop fighting a war? Withhold the only thing the men want more than war: sex. Seizing the advantage of their domestic power, Lysistrata leads her fellow Greek women in a country-wide sex-strike...

Nick Hern Books, 1996

Drama Classics

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Roles: Total (21), Female (8), Male (13), Unassigned (0)

...Aristophanes' Lysistrata is a classic Greek comedy about an extraordinary attempt by an Athenian woman, Lysistrata, to bring an end to the war that is afflicting Greece by persuading the women to withhold sexual privileges from...

Aurora Metro Books, 2000

Aurora Metro Books

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (18), Female (11), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...The world's leading feminist raconteur, polemicist and wit plunders the archetypal story of female resistance . . . Lysistrata, the play's heroine persuades the women to barricade themselves inside a building, refusing to give...

Methuen Drama, 1993

Classical Dramatists

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Roles: Total (21), Female (1), Male (20), Unassigned (0)

...Seeking peace after endless years of war, Trygaeus, a citizen of Athens, flies his giant dung-beetle to the heavens to argue with the gods. When he arrives, he discovers that the god of War has imprisoned the goddess of Peace, and he calls...

Methuen Drama, 2002

Classical Dramatists

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Roles: Total (15), Female (6), Male (9), Unassigned (0)

...Women in Power tells the story of a group of women, tired (just like their author) of the incompetent politicians in the demos. Convinced they could do a much better job than their male counterparts, they inveigle themselves...