Word: ismenia
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...both enlightening and engaging, providing most of the raunchy humor in the play.“The key phrases for this play are sex and war,” says Vanessa B. Koo ’12, who plays both Lampito, a strong and athletic Spartan woman, and Ismenia. “It’s about women taking control over the situation, and in a way they know how. The men have no choice but to submit.”“Just looking at war and what it does to people is an important theme...
...militant feminist. After the male politicians and military officers ignore her initial pleas for peace between Athens and Sparta, she persuades the Athenian women to lock themselves up in Acropolis. But first, the lights dimmed as the men and women engaged in ninja-style combat. Points go to Ismenia (Vanessa B. Koo ’12) for enthusiastically engaging in the choreography as a housewife with an undercurrent of almost rabid aggression—even while wearing a pleated mini skirt. After a couple weeks of the sexual siege, the Athenian men, frustrated and tired of walking around with...
Lysistrata is the story of a group of ancient Greek women--Kleonike (China Forbes), Myrrhine (Nell Benjamin), Lampito (Alison Weller) and Ismenia (Daniela Raz) --who, led by the title character (Mary Dixie Carter), withhold sex from their husbands to tempt the men home from...
Enter, at last, Lysistrata (Kathleen Sweeney) and her horde of woman cohorts: Kalonike (Darla Christopher), Myrrhine (Nancy Boghossian), Lampito (Sarah Brown), Ismenia (Maureen Fallon) and Calipo (Chuck Marshall). Yes, that was Chuck. A male playing a female part--there must be something behind this. You keep waiting for him to reveal his identity and perhaps foil Lysistrata's master plan. When it becomes apparent that nothing of the sort is going to happen, you begin to wonder if enough women auditioned. But no, the director tells you afterwards, they thought it would be a good joke...
...brave swordsman his earnestness of manner is very natural and pleasing. The part of "Bustopha," one of the funniest of Fletcher's creations, is taken by J. G. Brackett '01 in an exceptionally entertaining manner. In the female roles, W. C. Arensberg '00 makes a serious and charming "Ismenia." Femininity--a somewhat impossible trait perhaps--is slightly lacking in the other female characters...