Lizzie

2400 years ago, the great Greek playwright Aristophanes suggested in his play "Lysistrata" that women might stop the catastrophic wars between Athens and Sparta by withholding sex from the warriors until they make peace. The stage play Lizzie transposes this situation to 2025, when many thousands of women in the U.S. and in Europe express extreme Trump hate in social media and public protests, openly wish death on President Trump and his 80+ million supporters, come apart in TikTok histrionics, and protest by shaving their heads, marching naked with Hitler mustaches, sterilizing themselves, and moving abroad. And taking celibacy oaths. Could a women's sex strike stop the Trump presidency in in its tracks the way it did the Peloponnesian wars in "Lysistrata"? Read Lizzie to find out, with a plot adapted from Aristophanes.