UPCOMING SHOW: NEW ADAPTATION OF ‘LYSISTRATA’ (UPRISING)
In this heightened absurdist comedy, Tash Cordeaux multi-roles as an increasingly irrelevant and ageing Zeus, and the Prime Minister’s Stepford wife ‘Hipolita’, whose journey is one of self-discovery, female empowerment and true love.
Lysistrata (Uprising) reimagines Aristophanes’ comedy (411 BC) in a not-so-distant dystopian future.
The wAR is now in a woman’s hands?
Directed and Adapted By Paula Rodriguez and Rebecca Rogers based on Aristophanes’ Lysistrata.
Performed by MA Acting Contemporary 2025/26
“We must do something to stop the war. If we don’t, we’ll be silent witnesses while men destroy each other.”
Hellas teeters on the brink of catastrophe. Ravaged by endless war, society has fractured - men sent to fight, women confined to their homes, and an oppressive elite tightens its grip. But a rebellion is coming. A group of women launch a bold, unexpected strike to bring the war machine to a halt. They demand a new world. Will they succeed, or is history doomed to repeat itself?
A heightened dark comedy, upheld by chorus work through stylised physical movement and an original score with close complex harmonies.
