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A comedy by the Greek playwright Aristophanes. It is Older Than Feudalism, having first been performed in 411 BC, and (as such) is one of the oldest scripts still in use today.The play takes place during The Peloponnesian War, when the men of Athens and Sparta were embroiled in a hard, sweaty, nasty conflict. Lysistrata, an Athenian woman who is sick of all this war nonsense, convinces the women from several city-states (including Sparta) to swear off sex until the men agree to make peace. (As a more practical measure they take possession of the Acropolis, which contains Athens' war chest). The menfolk initially find the whole thing ridiculous — in Ancient Greece, All Women Are Lustful — and indeed Lysistrata must constantly prevent her co-conspirators from sneaking out to engage enemy forces. But when the women's resolve proves to be firm and upstanding, the stiffly frustrated menfolk are compelled to come to terms. Celebration ensues.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })And if you think that the previous summary was full of hot and steamy innuendo, you should be aware that the play itself is a hell of a lot raunchier. We're not joking about the stiff frustrations: the costumes for male characters include a Gag Penis. Oh, and, the vow sworn by the women includes very explicit detail of what they are forswearing, such as agreeing not to "crouch like the lioness on the cheese grater" (No, we don't know what that means either. It's been lost to the mists of time. All we have from the historical record is a menu from a Greek brothel, on which this position is the most expensive act you can purchase from a prostitute. Imaginations, start your engines).This is the Trope Namer for the Lysistrata Gambit, a more X-rated version of Exiled to the Couch. And, if it's performed by a cast with enough balls (and ovaries) to do it justice, it is still side-splittingly funny today.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Because translations often reflect the spirit of their own era, some of them include rather bizarre euphemisms and dated-sounding dialogue.The movie Chi Raq by Spike Lee is loosely inspired by this play. | |
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Accent Adaptation: Ancient Greek plays frequently include accent-based humor. The Spartans use a 'broader' or less sophisticated speaking style than the Athenians, so adaptations need to find a cultural equivalent. British English translations tend to use Scots accents for the Spartans; US translations have been known to use Texas accents. The Germaine Greer adaptation specifically states that each of the four Cleaning Women (characters added by Greer, essentially the Chorus/voice of the people) has a specific dialect with which they speak. The dialogue in the script is written in the respective dialects used at the time of original production, but Greer says that the dialects my be changed at the director's will and any colloquialisms may be changed to fit the accent. An audio version with Hermione Gingold as Lysistrata has all the upper-class Athenians speaking BBC English, the lower-class Athenians speaking semi-Cockney, the Spartans speaking US Southern, and other Greeks speaking various rural British accents. | |
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