uWaterloo Drama presents Lysistrata [After Dark], a play by Aristophanes, adapted and directed by Shaw Forgeron. This undergraduate thesis project has been produced and is performed by a group of talented theatre students from the UW drama department as part of our ongoing studies, and for your personal enjoyment! Get your tickets today!
**Warning - Mature subject matter... not suitable for children.
Given the choice, would you rather have world peace forever OR no more sex ever again? The answer is obvious, but, for the citizens of ancient Athens, things are a little more complicated. When the women of Greece deliver a stiff ultimatum, bitter rivalries must be set aside, and a nation's democracy is taken to task. In a contemporary musical adaptation of Aristophanes' classical text, gender roles, politics, and religion all come under scrutiny. Lysistrata [AD] is sexy-fun, funny, and fantastical, where sexuality is a mechanism to exploit status, stigma, and stereotyping. You'll laugh, you'll consider important questions, you may become intriguingly aroused (and that's important too)..!