Lisa’s Treaty, a new adaptation of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata
Translated, adapted, and directed by Joshua A. Streeter for The Ohio State University Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts’ Lab Series. October 2019.
“But wait! What’s this? The work of worthless men./No useful, righteous men would ever do such things.”
— Hemi-chorus of Women
“Well here’s an unexpected thing I never thought I’d see:/Another swarm of women come to help outside the gates.”
— Hemi-chorus of Old Men, in response.
“I haven’t had a single joy in life/No, not a one, since she has left the home:/I go inside and feel this awful pain, and everything seems empty, even food.”
— Dickens
“If you have done so many good things for
Each other, why make war and not desist?
What’s keeping you from reconciling?”
— Lisa, to the Athenian and Spartan Ambassadors
