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The Information on: Germaine Greer's `Lysistrata'
From: The Independent - London
Date: 19990713
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What Is It?
Phil Willmott's racy, Carry-On style production of Germaine Greer's 1972 translation of Aristophanes's Lysistrata, where the women refuse to sleep with their husbands unless they stop the Peloponnesian war.
Who's In It? Rose Wadham is both formidable and sexy as Lysistrata and leads a cast of 19 actors, including William Maxwell as the magistrate, Jack Mytton as the orator and Libby Machin and Mirren Delaney as two of the wives. What They Say About It "The boudoir prevails in a polemic that takes its fun more seriously than its seriousness, and leaves the audience gasping for much ...
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