med. 7

Lysistrata is the dirtiest piece of literature I have ever read. It has fart jokes, sex jokes, shit jokes, dick jokes, and every other sense of dirty humor you can imagine. Simply put, all the makings of a good comedy, but in order to have a truly great comedy, it has to be staged well. First of all, I would keep the stuffed genitalia, as well as finding other phallic symbols randomly placed in different scenes. I would put the first scene with Lysistrata near a fountain where the women soak their feet, wash their clothes, etc. Women would enter the stage from all sides, even having some ridiculous entrances, like a trap door, or falling. The fortress would consist of a cardboard wall, because I think that fakeness would add to the humor, and the place where the women chorus and men chorus argued would be two risers behind a kind of tower, so that the people can be seen but the risers cannot. The only way for the comedy to be captured at its fullest would be to get over the top actors for punch lines and stone faced straight men for the sarcasm. This play would be so much fun to do.