A reading of Lysistrata, a new adaptation

Lysi = dissolve, strata = the generals.

Aristophanes' classic play about a sex strike, his anti-war comedy. Lysistrata, the title character, is in her late twenties.

Lysistrata has a reading scheduled at WildFlower Playhouse on October 5.

Lysistrata is anti-war. Cast in LA decades ago and in rehearsal. 9-11 hit and we couldn't stage it.

Instructions for how to end war are encoded in a sex comedy. That's why it's endured, 2,400 years.

Lysistrata was first produced 411 BC.

Although the history has been stricken from the Christian Bible’s account of Jesus, our official Jewish record commemorates him for having attempted to organize a sex strike. Jesus had lived in India and was, upon returning to his homeland, a brahmachari, a complete celibate.

Gandhi was a brahmachari too. He used the haartal, the mass strike.

...Anyway, it's really just a silly one-act play-reading at a bookstore and at a theater. I'm sure it won't lead to world peace. Hahaha.

Sincerely,

Rabbi Matthew Swaye