1st Edition
Sex and War on the American Stage Lysistrata in performance 1930-2012
Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction Power Play
History, Theory, and Adaptation
Chapter 1 Sophisticated or Seditious?
Broadway, Gilbert Seldes, and Pablo Picasso (1930)
Chapter 2 Raced Bodies/Erased Bodies
The Federal Theatre Project’s Negro Repertory Lysistrata (1936)
Chapter 3 Cold War Cowboys at Home on the Range
The Second Greatest Sex (1955)
Chapter 4 Spinning Yarns
Spiderwoman Theater’s Lysistrata Numbah! (1977)
Chapter 5 Staging Strikes and Trafficking in Trauma
The Lysistrata Project (2003)
Chapter 6 Opting Out and Giving (it) Up
The Uncoupling and Lysistrata Jones (2011-12)
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Emily B. Klein is Assistant Professor of English and Drama at Saint Mary's College of California.
"Klein’s carefully researched examination of a variety of understudied adaptations of Lysistrata makes a strong case for the play’s continued relevance both in performance and on the page, as well as for addressing complex questions relating to the cultural performance of gender." - Helene P. Foley, Theatre Journal
