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Please plan time for parking and traffic in Mt Vernon. We will not be able to seat late arrivals for the performance until Intermission. Please plan to arrive at the theatre at least 30 minutes prior to curtain, and allow time to find parking in Mt Vernon. Thank you for understanding. DIRECTIONS & PARKING INFO - Click Here Try the parking app - www.SpotHero.com |
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Take your broken heart, ...and make it into ART!
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Lysistrata
. . . a play for the 21st Century! by Aristophanes Translated by Sarah Ruden Directed by Michael Blum & Darlene Harris 09/21/18 - 10/14/18 Fri & Sat at 8pm; Sun at 2pm Lysistrata, originally written and performed in 411 BCE, is considered by many to be the greatest work of the ancient comic playwright Aristophanes. In the play, as part of her extraordinary mission to stop a grinding, never‑ending war, Athenian matron Lysistrata convinces the women of Greece to withhold sex and to capture the Acropolis, thus bankrupting the war effort and reducing men to comic deprived desperation. Bawdy, unrestrained and surprisingly modern in its world view, Lysistrata is performed in a recent translation by Sarah Ruden that critics call “a perfect Lysistrata for the new millennium.” Catered Reception with Cast & Director, immediately following opening night performance (Fri, 9/21/18) Ten Spot Thursday: Sept 27, 2018 All tickets for this performance just $10 Talk Back: Sun, Oct 7, 2018 Post Show discussion with cast & director following the matinee performance. BUY TICKETS HERE NOTICE!
Adult language and content. No one under 16 admitted without an accompanying adult. |
TICKET PRICES
Adults $24 Seniors, Students, & Military $21 Fri & Sat - 8:00pm Sun - 2:00pm 
Running Time
2 hours, Including ONE (15 min) Intermission. Please scroll down to see the Production Photos from
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A Look at LYSISTRATA - - -
When the women of Athens have had enough --- Lysistrata rallies them to go on a Sex Strike - but even more - to take control of the Acropolis - the seat of Finance and Business, to bring an end to a seemingly never ending war! War, Sex, and not valuing the opinions of women - somethings never change! Video by Anthony Scimonelli Music: Ode to Athena, by Michael Levy |
About our Playwright
- Sarah Ruden, PhD
Sarah Ruden was raised in the United Methodist Church and is a “convinced Friend” or Quaker convert. She holds a Ph.D. in Classical Philology from Harvard University and an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars. She has taught Latin, English, and writing at Harvard, Yale, and the University of Cape Town, and has been a tutor for the South African Education and Environment Project, an education-enrichment nonprofit in Cape Town. She was a scholar in residence for three years at Yale Divinity School and a Guggenheim fellow, and is now a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. In the fall of 2016, she received the Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant for her work on Augustine’s Confessions.
She is a poet, translator, essayist, and popularizer of Biblical linguistics. A collection of her poetry, Other Places (William Waterman Publications, 1995, later distributed by HarperCollins) won the South African Central News Agency Literary Award, and her poems appear in The National Review and religious periodicals. She made use of her experience in publishing several book-length translations of pagan literature to write Paul among the People: The Apostle Reinterpreted and Reimagined in His Own Time (Pantheon, 2010). Her translation of Aeschylus’ Oresteia is part of The Greek Plays, a Modern Library Collection (2016). The Face of Water: A Translator on Beauty and Meaning in the Bible (Pantheon) and Augustine’s Confessions: A New Translation (The Modern Library) both appeared in early 2017. She has begun a new translation of the Gospels for The Modern Library, taking into account linguistic, literary, and historical research that has been poorly represented in standard translations.
- Sarah Ruden, PhD
Sarah Ruden was raised in the United Methodist Church and is a “convinced Friend” or Quaker convert. She holds a Ph.D. in Classical Philology from Harvard University and an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars. She has taught Latin, English, and writing at Harvard, Yale, and the University of Cape Town, and has been a tutor for the South African Education and Environment Project, an education-enrichment nonprofit in Cape Town. She was a scholar in residence for three years at Yale Divinity School and a Guggenheim fellow, and is now a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. In the fall of 2016, she received the Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant for her work on Augustine’s Confessions.
She is a poet, translator, essayist, and popularizer of Biblical linguistics. A collection of her poetry, Other Places (William Waterman Publications, 1995, later distributed by HarperCollins) won the South African Central News Agency Literary Award, and her poems appear in The National Review and religious periodicals. She made use of her experience in publishing several book-length translations of pagan literature to write Paul among the People: The Apostle Reinterpreted and Reimagined in His Own Time (Pantheon, 2010). Her translation of Aeschylus’ Oresteia is part of The Greek Plays, a Modern Library Collection (2016). The Face of Water: A Translator on Beauty and Meaning in the Bible (Pantheon) and Augustine’s Confessions: A New Translation (The Modern Library) both appeared in early 2017. She has begun a new translation of the Gospels for The Modern Library, taking into account linguistic, literary, and historical research that has been poorly represented in standard translations.
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CAST
Amy Heller - Lysistrata Sharon Carter - Calonice Lindsey Schrott - Igetis Kate Crosby - Stratyllis Evangeline Ridgaway - Lampito/Athenian Woman Melissa McGinley - Myrrhine Matt Mitchell - Kathodigitis Jim Knost - Cinesias/Athenian Ambassador Lincoln Goode - Philurgus/Spartan Ambassador 2 John Covaleskie - Councilor/Spartan Ambassador 1 Brandon Richards - U/S Kathodigitis (9/29) |
CREATIVE TEAM
Michael Blum - Director Darlene Harris - Director Lady O. Tatum - Stage Manager Alan Zemla - Scenic Designer Al Ramer - Lighting Designer Julia Golbey - Costume Designer Michael Blum - Sound Design Brandon Richards - Fight Choreography |
Production Photos: Please credit Spotlighters Theatre / Anthony Scimonelli Photography (Photos for the current production will be available Sept 21, 2018)
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