LYSISTRATA
Presented by Arrowood Theatre with Support from the OAC and Theatre Passe Muraille
Inspired by the Greek comedy, LYSISTRATA, follows three young women over the course of an evening - Lampito, Calonice, and Myrrhine - as they venture into the uncharted online world of LYSISTRATA.com, an exclusive virtual club experience for the elite, and a place where pleasure and danger toe a very fine line. We will be exploring the ways multiple artistic disciplines - auditory storytelling, music, dance, poetry, visual art - invite audience members into the interactive world of the play, all to be featured on an original, curated website built to house the show.
Through falsehood and camp, LYSISTRATA will put ‘Clubbing’ on display. For those who have craved the long lines, loud bass, and overpriced drinks, this production aims to examine the ways nightlife spaces (and gender-marginalized people’s connections to such spaces) play a role in the relationships we form and communities we cultivate.
This concept holds new importance as we attempt to adapt to the online versions - bastardizations - of the spaces we once inhabited. Can these experiences that depend so heavily on connection; on feeling; on bodies in space together, be artificialized?
CREATED and PERFORMED by Kiera Publicover; Simone Matheson; Michelle Blight
SOUND DESIGNED by Simone Matheson
STAGE MANAGED by Franco Pang
PRODUCED by Arrowwood Theatre Company
HISTORY
Workshopped with the support of Theatre Passe Muraille via the OAC Recommender Grant for Theatre Creators - Fall 2022
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