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.