“The film, Mr. Lee has said, is focused on gun violence on the South Side; some reports, unconfirmed by Mr. Lee, offer the intriguing possibility that the film is a comedic reimagining of ‘Lysistrata,’ the ancient Greek tale by Aristophanes in which women withhold sex to force the men to end the Peloponnesian War.”
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If British Opera Is In A (Financial, Cultural) Hole, Is This The Way Out?
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