War has been going on for­ev­er. Lysis­tra­ta con­vinces the women of Greece and the known world to with­hold sex from their hus­bands (and lovers, occa­sion­al shags, one-night-stands etc) in order to force the men to bro­ker world peace. The women agree and despite being tempt­ed hold true to their promise. Will the men come togeth­er and stop fight­ing so they can get laid?

Adapt­ed from the play by Aristo­phanes Lysis­tra­ta is sexy, sil­ly, polit­i­cal, and meta-the­atri­cal. It’s ener­getic in true Bac­cha­nals fash­ion with actors play­ing mul­ti­ple char­ac­ters, gen­der neu­tral cast­ing, live music, and chore­o­graphed danc­ing.  There are numer­ous pop cul­ture ref­er­ences, point­ed polit­i­cal jokes, a tiny bit of self-pro­mo­tion along with fan­tas­tic cho­rus work and com­ic tim­ing. Occa­sion­al­ly it feels like a lec­ture on the woes of the world but most­ly it is anti-war rhetoric of the most enter­tain­ing sort.