2000 – “Looking for Lysistrata” by Aristophanes (translated by Dudley Fitts)
Posted on: April 12, 2000 When Lysistrata, Athenian housewife and mother, calls the women of Greece to a meeting in one of the public squares of Athens, nobody imagines that the actions of a few women can bring the male society to its knees and an end to the twenty-year Athenian-Spartan war ravaging Greece.
Led by Lysistrata, women from all parts of Greece take a solemn oath of sexual abstinence until their men stop the war. And, in a time when a woman’s place was definitely in the home, women come out into the streets and take charge of the treasury, situated on Athens’ famous mountain, the Akropolis, using pots, pans and whatever makeshift weapons they can find.
But time is running out for Lysistrata, who has trouble keeping her sex-starved women-at-arms in check. In the end, it all boils down to the crucial question: Who will crack first?
Cast
Lysistrata Birgit Kocher
Kalonikê Monika Lobendanz
Myrrhinê Julia Strohbach
Lampitô Barbara Colle
Boiotian Woman Nina Grabmaier
Female Chorus Leader Manuela Hölzl
Female Chorus Michela Borzaga
Andrea Brüggler
Doris Dorfer
Maria Ennemoser
Melanie Müller
Comissioner Johannes Stüger
Kinêsias Christian Tröbinger
Spartan Herald
Spartan AmbassadorChristian Kelso
Male Chorus Leader Christian Haslecker
Male Chorus Levente Bartho
Charlie Hoag
Christian Kelso
Wolfgang Schneeberger
Johannes Stüger
Christian Tröbinger
Musician Robert Jäger
Crew
Director Ilse Lackenbauer
Costumes Hellmut Hölzl
Make-Up Kordula Oberhauser
Sonja Probst
Judith Vogel
Margot Aigner
Sound Michael Darmanin
Sound Mix Martin Kaltenbacher
Technician Gunther Seiser
Graphic Design Martin Del-Negro
Production Photography Alois Lobendanz
Assistant Director
Language CoachingJennifer Stanley
Programme Notes
Public RelationsMichael Corrigan
Ticket Sale Deborah Hooper
Michael Darmanin
Bar Martin Lechner
Stefan Stingl
Norbert Schuh
Clauda Weixlbaumer
Stage Gunther Seiser
Franz Hasenrader
Andreas Schachermayr
Daniel Anderson
Stefan Stingl
Matt Sweeney