Woot.
Ok, so Lysistrata is a random random play, and I will tell you all about it because I think it's relevent to today. Here's the basic plot: Lysistrata is a really intelligent woman who lives in Athens. She's really frustrated because Athens has just gotten its butt kicked by the Sicilians and they're fighting with everybody and basically so many men have died that there's nobody left to draft, but the wars are continuing. So she decides to do something about it. She calls all the women of all the different Greek city-states together and they all decide to refuse to sleep with their husbands until the city-states sign a peace treaty. In Athens the women take over the Acropolis- which is where the treasury is- and hide away in there and refuse to let any men in for several days. Eventually the men can't take being celibate anymore and the city-states sign a peace treaty and then everyone has sex. But not on stage. There were a lot of naked people, though. Not really for any reason, either. They were just kinda like "Everyone take your clothes off." Fifteen minutes go by. "Now everyone put your clothes back on." It was random random random times 7. But very funny.
And here's how I think the play is relevant to today. What if all the spouses or signifigant others of Congress and the Cabinate and the Presidant and the other heads of state that are backing the war in Iraq, rufuse to sleep with them until all the troops pull out of Iraq? Can't you just imagine Dick Cheney trying to get his wife into bed? ("Sleep with me or I'll have you put in prison for being unAmerican. This goes against the PATRIOT Act!")
Teeheehee.
Anway, I finished Lysistrata last night and then read Medea this afternoon while I did my laundry. Note to self- make sure you have enough quarters before you get down there. Yikes, I didn't know I had that much laundry! My favorite part was when the sign said "One washer load equals one dryer load," but I managed to fit three loads of wash into one dryer. So they're high. Or trying to make more money. But probably high. But the moral of the story was maybe this 4 plays a week thing wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be.
Well, there's a mixer tonight at Tower Court, which is one of the dorms, and I beleive I shall go.
2 Comments:
Oh man, it's a dollar here. And some of us, in the interests of being frugal and being nice to the environment, don't do laundry every two days so when we do do laundry it's a megaload and it doesn't necessarily all fit in one machine- those things are tiny! Plus you have to do two loads anyway, one for colors and one for whites and it's insane! I ran out of quarters today and had to beg some off of my roomie, who is amazing and cool and gave me 4. Yay! Anyway, I'm bitter at the laundry procedure.
hahaha only a dollar? Its $1.25 a load here and $1 for drying! woooord. I have an account now. So I don't need quarters...anymore.
I think I remember hearing something about that play...they put it on sometimes...haha good times. not really. what am I talking about? oh yes...25 days!
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