Qui a peur de Lysistrata ?

The play's title takes its name from the main character in Aristophanes' Lysistrata, a rebellious heroine who, by any means necessary, wants to put an end to the Peloponnesian War. Conflict and violence always seem inescapable, but is this an absolute fact? Do we have any alternatives? What weapons do women have at their disposal to change the situation imposed for centuries by a bellicose patriarchal model?

Roser Montlló Guberna and Brigitte Seth are "autrices de spectacles", at once directors, choreographers, playwrights and performers. They asked MarDi to write a piece freely inspired by ancient tragi-comedy. On stage, nine performers play indifferently men, women, children, the chorus and the singular figures of this story in an attempt to understand the mechanisms that lead to war.

In a ravaged space, the troupe juggles languages, song and dance. Three juxtaposed worlds cohabit, and sometimes even dialogue. On one side, the living, frantic and distraught, struggle and fight, appealing to the dead and to something greater than themselves: God, deities, invisible forces? On the other, the dead speak to the living to warn them to worry about the present, to comfort them, to scold them.