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Lysistrata
2013-03-15 00:15Being performed by Theatre@First http://www.theatreatfirst.org/shows/lysistrata/lysistrata.shtml
and I went tonight. Shallow reactions: wacky play, decent and imaginative adaptation, was happy to pay $5 for "pay what you can" night, not sure if I'd be happy with the normal $15. Program notes that the original play isn't feminist at all, it's using the utter absurdity of women having power and accomplishing things as a hook for an anti-war message. The play as performed included an exchange like "women can't run the treasury!" "women run household finances! how is that different?" "it just is!" which sounds a bit feminist in effect if it was in the original, whether or not Aristophanes knew what he was doing. Program notes that they replace multiple choruses with lots of individual and distinctively dressed women... My reservations about full price are more about Aristophanes than about the performance group.
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Was social all weekend so no parking reading then, and book has since returned to the library, blogging is on hold until I can buy a copy. Will probably switch back to the Indus in the meantime.
and I went tonight. Shallow reactions: wacky play, decent and imaginative adaptation, was happy to pay $5 for "pay what you can" night, not sure if I'd be happy with the normal $15. Program notes that the original play isn't feminist at all, it's using the utter absurdity of women having power and accomplishing things as a hook for an anti-war message. The play as performed included an exchange like "women can't run the treasury!" "women run household finances! how is that different?" "it just is!" which sounds a bit feminist in effect if it was in the original, whether or not Aristophanes knew what he was doing. Program notes that they replace multiple choruses with lots of individual and distinctively dressed women... My reservations about full price are more about Aristophanes than about the performance group.
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Was social all weekend so no parking reading then, and book has since returned to the library, blogging is on hold until I can buy a copy. Will probably switch back to the Indus in the meantime.