Lysistrata leads the women of Greece in a revolt against the male establishment calling on them to ban sex in order to stop a bloody conflict. A bold, visual, highly accessible, no-nonsense approach to the contemporary staging of a classical text
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Released
Original Language
EN

After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his kingdom, wanton and proud young Salomé comes before her king with an unreasonable demand. Beguiled by John the Baptist, and then scorned for the sake of his god, lascivious Salomé—encouraged by her mother, the vindictive, Herodias—commands that John be executed and his head delivered on a silver platter.

Titus Andronicus returns from the wars and sees his sons and daughters taken from him, one by one. Shakespeare's goriest and earliest tragedy.