Lysistrata

Frustrated at the ongoing violence of the civil war, Lysistrata decides that the women of Athens must take matters into their own hands. Against heartfelt resistance, she eventually persuades the entire female population (with a couple of exceptions) that the only way to make peace is to stop making love: they will deny their husbands sex until a treaty has been signed.
Packed with lewd behaviour and brazen humour, Aristophanes' battle of the sexes was astonishingly ahead of its time. In this musical adaptation, Ranjit Bolt brings all the vigorous energy of this ancient sex-strike comedy bang up to date.