Lysistrata in Jerusalem, a new play by Jean R. Freedman in cooperation with Abeer Shehadeh.

 A staged reading for SWAN Day, at Busboys and Poets, Takoma (Nicolás Guillén Room), 235 Carroll St NW, Washington, DC 20012

In Lysistrata in Jerusalem Jean R. Freedman has updated Aristophanes’ classic comedy in which women from warring city-states band together and refuse to have sex with their men until a peace treaty is signed. Lysistrata in Jerusalem brings this strategy to the contemporary Middle East, creating a world in which Israeli and Palestinian women seek to end the conflict by taking matters into their own hands

 FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC