Award winning dramatist Vivian Nielsen has modernised Aristophanes’ classic Lysistrata about the women who withhold sex from their husbands in attempt to end war and the tyranny of men. However, abstinence is difficult, and as time passes the women long after their men, and blacklegging emerges in their midst – after all, who said women don’t like sex? In the antique Greece of Aristophanes, the thought of women being in command was grotesquely comical – welcome to the reality of the 21st century.
