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Apr 06, 2009

Girl Power in Georgetown with Synetic’s Lysistrata

Can a prolonged state of blue balls save the world? Aristophanes seemed to think so. In his Lysistrata, given a spunky treatment from Synetic Theater and Georgetown’s theatrical program, a feisty female convinces her counterparts that their only recourse to stopping a war between Athens and Sparta is to withhold sex until peace is reached. Will the penis prove mightier than the sword? You get the idea. The collaboration is directed by Georgetown’s Derek…

 
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