The Peloponnesian War drags on and on without result in sight, as well as the tough-minded Lysistrata has taken enough. Men!-often making stupid decisions that influence everyone. Women’s views should never be listened to.

Taking issues into her own hands, Lysistrata convenes a gathering of women from warring city-states across Greece and demands a making love strike. It’s a difficult sell, but in the end it really is agreed: they’ll withhold sex before war is taken to hasty a detailed.

Playing their portion too, the old women about Lysistrata of Athens assume control of the Acropolis-and with it, the treasury-holing up behind it’s barred gates and choking off the silver precious metal that funds the interminable war.

It’s a waiting game, and a hard one-some of the ladies are already becoming in need of sex and deserting the cause. But Lysistrata is determined to remain the training course and soon restores discipline. The males can’t hold out forever … may they?

Initial staged in 411 BCE, Lysistrata is the bawdy, comic account of 1 woman’s singular mission to get rid of the Peloponnesian Battle using the just means that seems available to her in a male-dominated world.