Lysistrata - Couverture souple

NEW VERSION OF GREEK CLASSIC PLAY: Lysistrata, the play's heroine persuades the women to barricade themselves inside a building, refusing to give their husbands sex until they negotiate an end to the Peloponnesian War and secure peace. She also persuades the women of Sparta,the enemy, to join her cause and refuse sex to their husbands until they agree to stop the war. The men eventually give in, peace is agreed and the women go home to their husbands.

Germaine Greer, broadcaster, journalist and academic is best known as an author for her groundbreaking work, The Female Eunuch and more recently for her book The Beautiful Boy. She was also recently a contestant on Celebrity Big Brother. Phil Willmott is a theatre director who has contributed some additional dialogue to the playscript.