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Aristophanes Plays 2 - The Wasps & The Clouds & The Birds & Festival Time & The Frogs
Aristophanes is the oldest comedic writer in Western literature Although only eleven of the some forty plays he wrote survive, his unique blend of slapstick, fantasy, bawy and political satire provide…
Six Greek Comedies - Birds & Frogs & Women in Power & The Woman from Samos & Cyclops & Alkestis
The comedies of the Athenian theatre not only lie at the root of Western drama, they also offer a unique insight into everyday life in ancient Greece This selection of six wide ranging plays includes the…
Aristophanes Plays 1 - The Acharnians & The Knights & Peace & Lysistrata
Reissue of Aristophanes’ most famous plays in the Methuen Classical Greek Dramatists series Aristophanes was a unique writer for the comic stage as well as one of the most revealing about the society…
Aristophanes and Menander (New Comedies) - Women in Power & Wealth & The Malcontent & The Woman from Samos
Written in the century following the defeat of Athens by the Spartans in the Peloponnesian War, these four plays signal a change of emphasis in stage comedy more appropriate to the new world order of the…
Lysistrata and Other Plays - The Acharnians & The Clouds
“But he who would provoke me should remember. That those who rifle wasps’ nests will be stung! Writing at a time of political and social crisis in Athens, Aristophanes (c.447–c.385 BC) was an eloquent,…
The Frogs and Other Plays
Aristophanes (c. 448x445 - 386x380 BC), the supreme master of Old Comedy, wrote plays whose cheerful obscenity and sharp political satire have never been equalled In The Wasps an old-fashioned father and…
The Birds
“The intention,” Walter Kerr writes, “has been to make the play sound as it might have sounded to an average Athenian sitting in a popular comic theatre”…
Good Morning Athens
Large Mixed Cast Male, 1 Female
Inspired by Lysistrata, this rollicking musical puts a contemporary spin on the effects of the Peloponnesian War on Greece It begins shortly after the wedding of Cassandra and Makareus, when Jason and…
Lysistrata
Large Mixed Cast
First performed 411BC - it is Athens, and the Peloponnesian War seems endless. Lysistrata summons all the women of Greece to take over public affairs and try to manage them more effectively than the men…
The Birds
A contemporary adaptation of The Birds by a award-winning poet Sean O'Brien Pez and Eck are on the hunt for the perfect society in "a city where free men might live like birds". But when they start building…
