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'LYSISTRATA' TAKES AUDIENCE ON LAUGH-FILLED, RIBALD ROMP.(LIVING)(Theater review)(Review)

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From: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
Date: 20000501
Author:Stein, Jerry

Ancient Athens looks like a disco in director Nicholas Korn's outrageous but funny adaptation of Aristophanes' anti-war comedy ''Lysistrata.''

In the Stage First Cincinnati production, seen Friday night at the Fifth Third Bank Theater, blue swag draperies hang above curtains of swaying silver strips. Out comes Lysistrata (aggressive, voluptuous Susan Kidd). She's a vision of anger in her over-the-calf boots and slip-like mini dress.

The men of Sparta and Athens won't quit their silly war so Lysistrata and her women, in their leopard dresses, red vinyl coats and net ...

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