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LYSISTRATA 2025: NO MORE BLOOD

An Empowering Theatrical Call for Peace

An empowering, interactive, and free adaptation of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata for one performer, conceived by stage director Angeliki Kasola and performed by Greek actress Irini Mela.

This unique production is not just a performance — it is a theatrical call to action for WORLD PEACE, and the end of violence and discrimination in all forms. It brings urgent global issues to the stage, including women’s rights, femicide, democracy, utopia, justice, ecology, and the protection of life on our planet. With passion and immediacy, Lysistrata asks women to reclaim their role as creators and protectors of life — RIGHT NOW — by uniting, mobilizing, and demanding change for a sustainable future for all.

Lysistrata, the eternal woman — both gifted and cursed to witness the suffering of humanity and the Earth across time — returns to the stage 2,500 years after her first call for peace between Athens and Sparta. Dressed in her ancient attire, she now reappears as a woman who has seen, heard and witnessed it all and can no longer accept the destruction and silence.

Lysistrata crosses through time with a sense of urgency, to ignite — this time — an international call for peace, democracy, justice, and an end to violence and discrimination in all forms.
At the heart of this call is a fierce stand against gender-based violence and femicide, which are spreading like a scourge across the globe.

She breaks her silence to ignite, once again, the possibility of world peace. Each performance becomes an improvised international women’s congress, called and presided over by Lysistrata herself — a gathering for Peace, Democracy, and even Utopia.
The audience is transformed into invited delegates from different nations and members of the comic choruses of Aristophanes’ timeless work.

ΤΗΕ STORY

An Interactive Experience

The audience — both women and men — are not passive spectators but active participants. Lysistrata assigns them roles and national delegations, inviting them to engage directly with the performance and with each other in a shared experience of theatrical dialogue and resistance.

While recounting her legendary first strategy — a sex strike to end the war — Lysistrata re-enacts key scenes and characters from Aristophanes’ play. In a powerful, solo acting tour de force, she embodies both comedic and tragic figures, blending elements of Greek Comedy and Tragedy with popular theatre traditions from around the world. The result is a performance that is at once deeply rooted in Greek heritage and strikingly universal.

Language & Accessibility

In international performances, the actress performs primarily in Greek, while also speaking key phrases and punchlines in English during comic scenes to support comprehension through physical expression and vivid stage language.

During intimate monologues or serious addresses, the text is delivered in parallel bilingual form, in both Greek and English. The performance can also be adapted to incorporate the local language of the host country in place of English — making it fully accessible to international audiences.

Please contact us to discuss how we can tailor the experience to your language and audience.

Production & Flexibility

While the performance includes thoughtful staging and set design, it is built on the craft of the actor and designed to be highly adaptable. It can be performed in both traditional theatres and non-theatrical spaces, with minimal technical requirements and portable props.

Full duration: 90 minutes
Alternative version available: 60–75 minutes

We invite you to collaborate with us on this timely and urgent performance.

Let’s bring Lysistrata’s voice — and her demand for peace — to communities around the world.

OUR STORY

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THE PERFORMANCE

Did you know?

LYSISTRATA - NO MORE BLOOD was developed for participation at the FLIPT - Intercultural Festival Laboratory of Theater Practices XXIII edition, organized by Teatro Potlach, in Fara Sabine, Italy between July 7-16, 2023

Its Italian premiere at Teatro Potlach on July 10, 2023, was among 80 theatre artists and performers from 10 countries around the world. It was performed as a bilingual performance (Greek and English).

A 5 minute bilingual performance (Greek and Italian) was also developed and performed during the Invisible Cities Festival in the Women's Monastery Courtyard of Fara Sabine on 15 and 16 July 2023 over 60 times.

CURRENT PERFORMANCES IN GREECE

Following our premiere in Italy, Lysistrata: NO MORE BLOOD was further developed for Greek audiences, and has been performed at our space in Athens throughout 2024 and 2025, as well as in venues outside the city.

The performance has received enthusiastic responses and strong reviews from both audiences and critics alike.

We plan to continue performances across Greece throughout 2025 and into 2026.

If you’d like to attend an upcoming show, or bring the performance to your city or venue, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

open call for bilingual co-productions

We are seeking collaborators for a bilingual co-production of Lysistrata: NO MORE BLOOD — a performance designed to showcase the talent of female performers by offering them rich, challenging roles that go beyond stereotypes.

This production centers women in leadership roles and allows actresses to explore a wide range of emotional and theatrical expression, portraying complex female characters who inspire, provoke, and demand change.

To address the challenge of keeping the Greek language alive on stage while also communicating directly with international audiences in their own home language, we have developed a dual-actor version of the performance. In this version, two actresses perform side by side, each speaking in her own language — a powerful theatrical dialogue across cultures and borders.

We are currently looking for female performers and partner organizations interested in co-producing this version in their own country and language.

If you are a performer, producer, or presenter interested in bringing this unique and urgent theatrical experience to your community, please don’t hesitate to contact us. We would love to explore this exciting possibility with you.

Giving Women Performers Powerful Roles On Stage

Although the performance freely uses comedic forms, it brings to light the tragic dimension of Lysistrata, as a reminder of the harsh reality that gave birth to Aristophanes' comic drama: the endless war, the violence and restrictions placed on women, their deep anxiety to defend and preserve life, their love for peace, and their need to actively shape the present and future of their society.

Fortified with knowledge from the past, haunted by visions of a horrific future if nothing changes in the global descent into barbarity — a so-called “civilization” that respects neither people, nor life, nor nature, nor the generations to come — Lysistrata, as a woman of today, breaks her silence. She speaks freely, without censorship.

She crosses centuries. She mourns the dead. She protests. She rages. She argues, scolds, flatters, mocks, flirts, inspires, and engages in dialogue. She uses every form of expression to awaken the audience and move them toward a common purpose. She asks us to take a stand on the urgent issues facing humanity in the 21st century — and to join our voices with hers, declaring together:

NO MORE BLOOD.

This performance is inspired by the mothers, sisters, daughters, wives, companions and partners who — throughout history and still today — are forced to bury their children and loved ones because of decisions they did not make, but are tragically made to pay for.

It draws strength from the tireless Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina, who since 1977 have continued to remind the world of their disappeared. It is moved by the mobilizations of Iranian women who took upon them the Kurdish women's rallying cry — "Woman, Life, Freedom" — which echoed across the globe, while violence against women and femicide continues to grow during and after covid. It stands with the mothers and women of Palestine, whose children’s blood still stains the streets while we are all forced to watch as powerless spectators an unfolding genocide that shatters our souls. And it listens to the voices of displaced Indigenous women and grandmothers everywhere, who remind us of the earth's wisdom and urgent call for HUMANITY to return to a culture that respects life in all its forms, in balance with the ecosystem and resist all forms of barbarity.

“I dedicate this performance especially to my mother, Ariadni Kasola (1944–2020), who stood by every person who crossed her path — even in the final moments of her battle with cancer — always choosing, selflessly, the path of her heart. And to every woman who, visibly or invisibly, individually or collectively, contributes every day to building a better life for all of us and for the generations to come.”

Angeliki Kasola