"Lysistrata's Children,"

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"Lysistrata's Children," #1

Posted: 10/6/08 at 2:45pm

Theater for the New City presents "Lysistrata's Children," a comedy about love and war, performed by teens for adults

Philip Suraci
"Lysistrata's Children,"
November 6 to 23, 2008
Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue
Presented by Theater for the New City
Thursdays through Saturdays at 8:00 pm, Sundays at 3:00 pm


To share an outstanding show of last season with a larger audience, Theater for the New City will present a return engagement of "Lysistrata's Children," a Brechtian comedy written and directed by Philip Suraci, from November 6 to 23, 2008.

Inspired by Aristophanes, "Lysistrata's Children" is an original work conceived by Suraci and devised for and with the teenage cast. Like "The Me Nobody Knows" and Broadway's current "Spring Awakening," it is a play performed by young people for adults to see. It explores issues of war and peace, violence and non-violence through the power dynamics of child/parent relationships. In Aristophanes' original, Athenian wives denied their husbands sex in order to persuade them to make peace. In Suraci's ingenious adaptation, children withhold love from their parents until they sign an oath of "Victory over violence" and join the children's quest for peace. There is sly comedy in the children's manipulation of their parents' behavior and in the parents' responses to their children's demands.

The show's website is www.lysistrataschildren.com.

Tickets: Adults $15, Seniors, Teachers and Students $5
Box office/info [phone]. Online ticketing: www.theaterforthenewcity.net

Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue,New York .,NY 10003


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