Lysistrata, Temptress of the South

The Halifax Chronicle Herald Arts & Life section today features a review of a new production based on Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, and it sounds like an amusing entertainment. If you find yourself heading to Nova Scotia, you have until August 11 to catch a performance of this ancient Greek comedy translated to the American Civil War and performed by Two Planks and a Passion Theatre at Ross Creek Centre for the Arts, near Canning, Nova Scotia.  Pique your interest in Aristophanes’ original with this translation available at Perseus, and you can also try an audio version at a site with a great Latin name, LibriVox (“voice of a book” or “BooksVoice”).