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Our stage, with two chorus wings and the Akropolis and its gates in the background. |
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A close-up of the Akropolis, later siezed by Lysistrata's army of women as part of their revolt against war. |
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Kleonike joyously volunteers to be the first to drink from the wine the women will use to swear their oath of abstinence. Lysistrata (foward right), Myrrhine (back right), and Lampito (center left) look on. |
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A small group of tired old men attempts to burn the women out of the Akropolis by setting fire to the gates, while up above Lysistrata and her followers plunder the treasuries of Athens, to be used in a more responsible manner. |
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The two choruses square off, with the Koryphaios of Men and the Koryphaios of Women in front, trading insults and blows. |
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Lysistrata, Kleonike, Myrrhine, and Ismenia rout four Scythian Archers serving as policemen while the Commissioner of Public Safety shouts insults. |
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Myrrhine teases with her husband Kinesias as she seduces him and then constantly delays lovemaking to provide him with comforts. Eventually she runs off, leaving him unfufilled and desperate to stop the women's sex strike. |
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At last, the Athenian and Spartan ambassadors, overwhelmed by their "conditions" that Lysistrata's plan has imposed on them, sign a treaty, with the beautiful handmaiden Peace as a prize. Lysistrata watches and gives her final speech from atop the Akropolis gates. |
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