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Sex shirkers
From: The Village Voice
Date: 19990119
Author:Soloski, Alexis
The premise of Lyzl(Samuel Beckett Theater, a new musical adaptation of Aristophanes's Lysistrata, is not devoid of comic potential. In Ciulianrs increasingly puritan New York, a group of women decide to withhold sex in protest against masculine greed and ins nsi:sk tivity. But the hypothetical laughs go unravished by the play's creators.
Lyz! opens as activist Lyz (Jill Paxton) gathers her friends and convinces them to gird their loins with chastity belts until the menfolk change their wicked ways. In this black-and-white world, women are good, men are bad, and the only way the ladies can ...
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