An interesting performance, highlighting both the present-day relevence of Aristophanes' anti-war thoughts from two and a half millennia ago, and a possible new explanation for the K/T extinction event. Was the dinosaur reporoduction rate lowered by domestic political dispute?
The players are eloquent in the posturing, though Kragmyth's Lysistrata herself (Allosaurus veridicrinus) constitutes the first known case of a dinosauric bad-hair day.
Question from E. in Washington D.C.:
I love the Kragmyth project . . . My question is, in the final frame, are the pencils the phalluses, or is that what they signed the peace treaty with? Or both?
Kragmyth responds:
Thanks so much for your message. The pencils are the phalluses, but conveniently and with a coup of staging, they are also the instruments for signing the peace treaty. And there is a theatrically appropriate joke here, since "signing" the peace treaty in the play involves a lot of sexual banter between the men about who is going to get what "piece" of the babe-goddess Peace. There is another reflection here of a joke in the original play. When the Spartan ambassador first walks in with his big erection hidden under his cloak, the Athenian says (in just about these words) "Is that a giant coded message staff in your toga or are you just happy to see me?" It is hard to find layers of subtlety when you are staging ribald plays with plastic dinosaurs, but we try!
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