Staging of Lysistrita

At my high school last year, I participated in senior directs, which is a contest among seniors as to who can put on the best performance. My codirecter and I put on a comedy and found it much easier to stage than previous dramas. Like we said in class, comedies contain characters and places that are accessible to the audience. I believe this allows the director to better understand how to stage certain aspects of the play. I can vividly see the Herald coming on from stage left in a bent over position, his tight clothing revealing everything. And the seduction scene? I think Aesechles wrote this in such a way that no matter who put this play on, at least parts of the same vision would be imagined. This is both bad and good. It is bad because it partially limits the creativity that the DIRECTOR gets to use, because of the set happenings that are going on that help make the scene funny. On the other hand, this aides in preservation of the play. We can learn a great deal about Greeks and their culture by the way plays are expected to be played by the playwright. (That's alot of "plays"). Personally, the characters in this play seem a bit over the top and charactiture. I would try to do my best to make everything in this play seem REAL. Characters, plot, scenery, everything. I believe this would heavily increase the shock value which means more laughs.