• Issue Archive for
  • Mar 25-31, 2009
  • Vol. 22, No. 2

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  • Lysistrata at American Stage

    American Stage's Lysistrata doesn't really work, but it's an admirable attempt, nevertheless, to find the up-to-the-minute significance of an uncooperative 2500-year-old comedy. Working with an ambitious adaptation by Todd Olson and T. Scott Wooten, six topnotch actors do everything humanly possible to make Aristophanes' one-trick pony jump through a hundred variously-shaped hoops of fire, and if they occasionally succeed, that itself is reason for unbounded congratulations. I should say here that I've never seen a satisfying production of Lysistrata -- a textually faithful one at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center several years ago quickly got bogged down in stupid sex jokes, and I've even watched a Greek video version (English dubbed in) that was so boring, I wanted to scream in Greek "Hit the stop button!" The problem is, the play has a premise so magnificent, producers seem not to notice that it has little else besides.

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