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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20070912
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Lisa's Sex Strike Octagon Bolton HHH Cider with Rosie New Vic Theatre Newcastle-under-lyme HHH
Blake Morrison's Lisa's Sex Strike is a bang up-to-date version of Aristophanes's comedy Lysistrata. In a co-production between the feisty Northern Broadsides company and Bolton's adventurous Octagon Theatre, Morrison works an excess of contemporary issues into the themes of race, war, religion and sexual morality explored in the original.
The Acropolis, the place occupied by women in 411BC, becomes a factory in a small northern mill-town. It's the hub where the men unwittingly produce industrial ...
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