Performances Saturday 31.07.2010
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Lysistrata
On tour
Twenty years after the Peloponnesian War began, the situation in Athens has become so difficult that one woman, Lysistrata, decides to take matters into her own hands. Her plan is to force the men to negotiate through the denial of their conjugal rights. To this end, she organises a secret meeting of women from Athens and the other warring city states and convinces them to refuse all sexual contact with their husbands and lovers...
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Orestes
On tour
After murdering his mother, Clytemnestra, Orestes languishes in bed, tormented by the Furies, with his sister Electra by his side. When their uncle Menelaus returns to Argos from Troy, accompanied by Helen, they hope that he will intervene and persuade the city to overturn the death sentence to which Orestes has been condemned. However, neither Menelaus nor Tyndareus (Clytemnestra’s father) wishes to help him....
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