Miss Los Istrata
Miss Los Istrata is a bilingual (Afrikaans & English) adaptation of Aristophanes’s Lysistrata (411 B.C.) by Robin Malan.
See also the entry on Lysistrata
Contents
The original text
The action is set at a contemporary Miss World competition where a “sex strike” for world peace and women’s liberation is led by one of the contenders, the representative of a small South American country.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
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